Canadian Escarpment

This board describes a view it no longer has. HMdb's 2007 photographs show it at an earlier site beside a canyon; it now stands on NM-104 at New Trementina, below the escarpment's wall, where the ground lies near 4,900 feet. The 6,300 feet it prints belongs to the rim country above. Trujillo, fifteen miles back up NM-104, sits near 6,440, and the highway loses about 1,500 feet between the two. The grasslands the panel sends northwest begin at the top of that step, not here.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Canadian Escarpment Prominent landform of north- eastern New Mexico that ex- tends for almost 100 miles between Las Vegas and Clayton. From this point, the grass- lands of the High Plains reach northwestward to the foot of the Southern Rocky Mountains which rise to elevations of more than 13,000 feet. Ele- vation here 6,300 feet.

Where it stands