Page 4 - Volume 3 - Walks In The Black Range

11. Hillsboro Lake
Hillsboro Lake is about 3.65 miles from the Emory Pass Overlook. From the Overlook walk north on the Black Range Crest Trail for 3.6 miles, to the saddle just south of Hillsboro Peak. Turn east and go down a steep slope for about 100 yards.
proceeds north as trail 79 to Hillsboro Peak.
13. East Railroad Canyon
This walk starts at NM-152 continues up Railroad Canyon to the junction of the Railroad Canyon Trail and the East Railroad Canyon, a distance of about 2.2 miles. Continuing up East Railroad Canyon it reaches the Hillsboro Peak Bypass at about 5 miles from the highway.
14. Railroad Canyon Campground to Holden Prong Saddle

Begins at the Railroad Canyon Campground and follows the Gallinas Canyon Trail (trail 129) upstream to the beginning of Railroad Canyon Trail (trail 128).
Trail 128 meets the Black Range Crest Trail (trail 79) at the Holden Prong Saddle. A round-trip of just over nine miles.
15. Forest Trail 796 - Kingston Cemetery to Emory Pass

This trail may be walked as a one-way, with a car shuttle, or roundtrip. One end is near the cemetery at Kingston, just north of NM-152. The other end is at the vista overlook at Emory Pass.
16. Dry Creek (Kingston)
Access from the western edge of Kingston.
17. Middle Percha Loop
This is a loop walk up the Middle Percha west of Kingston. A nice “soft” trail for a walk through the woods (soft, because the ground is soft).
18. Ladrone Trail
A walk up the Middle Percha to a steep trail which does not really exist anymore. A nice work-out.
19. Picket Spring and Kingston to Goat Ranch
Newly improved, the Goat Ranch trail is of some historical interest. 2.6 miles RT. The Picket Spring
“trail” is a walk down an overgrown wash to two springs. Both share the same trailhead and the initial part of the route is the same for both.
20. Sawpit Canyon and Goat Ranch Spring
Walk up a stream canyon at the old Goat Ranch on Forest Road 157.
21. Carbonate Creek This trail starts at the overlook at Emory Pass and
12. Hillsboro Peak
Walk from North Percha Road west up the stream to an old cabin.
22. Mineral Creek Trail, Spring, and Waterfall
This trail description starts at Forest Service Road 157 and continues for 1.8 miles to the west up Mineral Creek.
23. North Percha
A classic walk up the North Percha. Trail issues at times but beautiful scenery, glyphs, and high cliffs.
24. Bald Hill Spring
North of North Percha Creek. A mix of old mining road and uphill scramble.
25. Dumm Canyon
East of Bald Hill - Some creek bottom walking through beautiful country.
26. Cave Creek to East Curtis Canyon or Las Animas Creek (FT 307 & 117)

A seldom walked trail with (perhaps) a bit of bushwhacking into country of high waterfalls and slot canyons.
27. Noonday Canyon
Access from NM-152, west of Lower Gallinas Campground.
28. Rabb Canyon Box
Access from NM-152, west of Lower Gallinas Campground.
29. Rabb Park
This trail starts at the same trailhead as the previous walk but heads more directly north into Rabb Park, an open area with access to several small streams.