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8. Opportunity Mine
This walk starts at a pull-out on NM-152 (the first gated road on the left - north - after you crest the hill coming out of Hillsboro) and ends near the Opportunity Mines. From the parking area, pass through a gate and proceed north up the road. Just past a barbwire gate a road forks to the right and crosses a wash, this trail is listed as Ready Pay - North of NM-152, in our inventory. For the walk described here, stay
left at this fork and continue uphill, staying to the left at the next road intersection.
Just before a relatively level section of road the Opportunity Mine (and a miner's cage - see photo on the following page) is just off the uphill side of the road (your right). Workings of the mine can be seen uphill and downhill from this point. A discussion of the mine is found later in this entry.
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If there has been some rain in the recent past there is a good chance that Ocotillo,
Fouquieria splendens, will be in bloom at the start of the trail. Pictured above and below.