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    Angel Peak Scenic Area - Angel Peak

    Angel Peak Scenic Area

    4.7(3 reviews)
    22.7 mi

    The best free campsite I've been to, hands down. On BLM land. Beautiful sunsets. Clean outhouses.read more

    Angel Peak Scenic Area was one of the best free campsites I came upon during my cross country road…read moretrip. I found this place by using the app CAMPENDIUM from my phone. I swear Campendium was so useful and helpful to me while along my journey. Whenever I needed a last second or spontaneous place to camp out for the night....Campendium had all the answers and solved all my problems, lol. For all the adventurers out there, I highly recommend downloading this app. It's free to use as well! So yeah I found Angel Peak Scenic Area...and not only was it free to camp for the evening...but the best part of it all was that the area was surrounded by a spectacular background of colorful purple and gray badlands!!! Yeah, just...it was so surprising that this place even existed! Because...it's located in Northwestern New Mexico near a town I had never heard called Bloomfield. But yeah...here was Angel Peak...what a hidden gem! Alright...so to get to the camping area....this was the one slight hindrance about this place...I had to drive a 7 mile dirt road. Okay yeah....the road was bumpy at times. But for my simple midsize car...there were no issues. Well, one other possible problem was that at the end of the road...there weren't many campsites or camp spaces available. It's not like Angel Peak was crowded....there just weren't many spots open and available to camp at. I fortunately found maybe 1 of the last spots around, and this was about 5pm on a Thursday in the middle of the month of September. So, for those who are interested in camping here...I'd recommend to arrive early. Overall, the ambiance here was a Perfect 10! After I found a camping space, got myself settled and set up my tent, I then walked over to the viewpoint and was quite impressed. It's just funny how you never hear of some places, they're so under the radar, and yet here I randomly at the spur of the moment found Angel Peak and was enjoying a terrific sunset immersed among inspiring badlands. You talk about the ideal place to camp out....and then to sit back and appreciate a late summer sunset....it really helped me put things into perspective....and just how much I've traveled to get here at this moment. Lol, alright I'll stop with the deep and intense talk. I'm glad I got a chance to review Angel Peak Scenic Area. This place certainly deserved a spot on Yelp and I'm glad to be the first to do it.

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    Angel Peak Scenic Area - Angel Peak (the less scenic view)

    Angel Peak (the less scenic view)

    Angel Peak Scenic Area - Appreciating the colorful badlands.

    Appreciating the colorful badlands.

    Angel Peak Scenic Area - Before heading to the campground area I made a quick stop here at the Badlands Overlook.

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    Before heading to the campground area I made a quick stop here at the Badlands Overlook.

    Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness - Look ma, I'm on top of the world !

    Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness

    4.5(13 reviews)
    33.6 mi

    Loved loved LOOOOOVED it here !!! It felt like I was on a alien planet! We took our Jeep and got to…read moredrive around. We literally was outside, about to hike & it started POURING rain on us! We drove 2 hours to get here & got to play around for 25 minutes but it was one of my favorite 25 minutes. Because of the sudden rain storm we got to go mudding, which I always love. But you MUST hurry to the front, you may get trapped on the other side of the entrance if it rains & the trench (which is SUPER deep) fills up. DO NOT try to cross if it fills up !! You will drown. We hurried & it was already 1/4 filled & we got there only 10 minutes after the rain started.

    If you're unfamiliar with the area but an avid hiker, Bisti Badlands is an amazing area to check…read moreout on your own, so long as you've come prepared with GPS coordinates, maps, and parking advice. I have no affiliation with it, but we used Firefall Photography's website for excellent resources on all of that, including pinpoints for the north/south parking areas. As experienced hikers (Grand Canyon, Utah parks, Himalayas, etc.), we know our limitations, including the fact that our GPS apps often make quirky jumps in extremely remote areas, so we tried to pick and choose our priorities, ultimately deciding that we could manage the Bisti portion by ourselves. (We did the De-Na-Zin side the following day, with a guide. We had limited time to explore and didn't want to waste it false-navigating to permitted parking sites or major landmarks on our own, especially in monsoon season, so we signed up for the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah tour offered by Navajo Wilderness Adventures for that area -- absolutely wonderful!) On our independent day at Bisti, we arrived around 3 p.m., and a few sprinkles started just after 7 p.m., cutting off our desire to stay into the golden/blue hours, but it's worth visiting no matter the time of day. Since we had only one sunrise moment to spend there, we decided to end at Wings, despite having read that the Eggs don't photograph well in brighter light, and we were pleased with that choice in the end, since we had "near sunset" at the gorgeous hill of wings. Overall, in just under five hours, we made it from the Eggs to the Wings and hit nearly every major formation in between, including the Rock Garden, petrified wood, Hoodoo City, Vanilla Hoodoos, Manta Ray, and more. We found that some of our GPS points didn't quite match the Firefall map (including at the Beige Hoodoos and Manta Ray), but going armed with general AllTrails locations, Firefall and AllTrails maps, Gaia, and a tiny print map with photos made it all come together, allowing us plenty of time to photograph the landscape from vantages up, down, and all around. The relatively flat terrain made our nine miles of hiking relatively simple (but do avoid it after rain where possible), and it was a fantastic journey -- such mesmerizing formations and astounding landscape!

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    Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness - Instagram: @telephonesmoothie

    Instagram: @telephonesmoothie

    Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness - Instagram: @telephonesmoothie

    Instagram: @telephonesmoothie

    Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness - We loved it here!!

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    We loved it here!!

    Canyon de Chelly National Monument

    Canyon de Chelly National Monument

    4.6(73 reviews)
    79.6 mi

    I unfortunately didn't have time to go on a guided tour of Canyon de Chelly (it's located in the…read moreNavajo Nation, so you need to have a licensed tour guide to enter the majority of the Canyon), but I visited the welcome center, both the north and south rim drives, and hiked the White House Trail. The welcome center is staffed with NPS rangers and volunteers. There's a small gift shop and museum area with exhibits. There's also a hogan outside and you can ask the ranger to give a hogan talk and even enter it. The rim drives are gorgeous, although dusk and dawn really bring out the colors. The canyon rims are quite sheer which is different from a lot of other canyons. Pueblos can be seen from several lookouts, so bring binoculars. There tends to be people selling artwork and jewelry at the lookouts, so if you're interested, bring cash. The White House Trail is the only publicly accessible trail without a guide. It starts at the lookout, and you can see the structure from the parking lot, or decide to hike down to get a closer look (it's fenced off with a chain link fence to avoid people not respecting it). The hike is 2.5 miles round trip with little shade (although does have two cool tunnels), so bring water.

    Canyon de Chelly is an amazing place. Whether you are passing through and get a chance to spend an…read morehour or 2 driving the North or South roads, it's worth it! It might not get any of the recognition of its big sister the Grand Canyon, but it is beautiful nonetheless! I'll also take the quietness and much smaller crowds. The South Road gives you great views for the afternoons, and the North Road gives you great morning views as the sun comes up. Either way there are some great viewpoints that are very different on each road. There are plenty of trails at the Outlook points, but you can really just make your own trail by walking wherever you can and want as long as you are careful. I take my pups and in some areas actually let them loose because we are the only ones around and because I trust my pups to not fall off the edge.

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    Canyon de Chelly National Monument - 10/2025- spider rock

    10/2025- spider rock

    Canyon de Chelly National Monument
    Canyon de Chelly National Monument

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