![]() ![]() At 15.4 miles you reach the confluence with Panchuela Creek. The trail stays constantly on the north bank of the creek. The track shown on the map (above) looks like it crosses Cave Creek, but that is a canyon-bottom distortion of GPS signal. View up the Panchuelo Creek near its confluence with Cave Creek Instead, you want to turn right onto NM-50 to go east. That would take you west, to the gates of the Glorieta conference center. Driving directions from Google currently state that you should turn left onto NM-50. There are also five or six closely spaced traffic bumps outside a horse ranch on this road – go slowly. Panchuela Road is a narrow, single-lane road with numerous turnouts. After 1.4 miles, at the roads end, arrive at the trailhead.Īll these roads are paved.After 0.2 miles go right onto Panchuela Road.After 19.1 miles go left onto Windsor Road.After 5.9 miles, at a stop sign, go left onto NM-63. ![]() After 0.1 miles, at a stop sign, go right onto NM-50.After 0.1 miles, at the end of the ramp, go left over the overpass bridge.From Interstate-25 (I-25) heading north, take exit 299 for Glorieta/Pecos.They’ve already cut through hundreds of logs the balance-beam requirement for the Johnson Lake ascent may soon be history. Fortunately the Forest Service has a hard-charging team at work (pictured above) clearing the tread. On this date there were interlocking stacks of nested deadfall blocking long stretches of the Johnson Lake trail. The suggested loop ascends above Winsor Creek on the Winsor Ridge Trail #271, traverses below Santa Fe Baldy on the Skyline Trail #251 (with side trips to the lakes) and then descends along Cave Creek and Panchuela Creek on Cave Creek Trail #288. This is a spectacularly limnic excursion that reaches two high and beautiful lakes then descends along a roaring mountain stream. Forest Service Team clearing the heavily-encumbered Johnson Lake Trail Overview: ![]()
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