Historical Marker
Canadian River Canyon
Roy, Mora County · New Mexico
The gorge below this panel deepens downstream, to almost a thousand feet at Mills Canyon by the Forest Service's measure. Farther south, in side canyons running to the river, Congress designated the Sabinoso Wilderness in 2009: about sixteen thousand acres of public land with no public road in. It stayed landlocked until 2017, when the Wilderness Land Trust bought the neighboring Rimrock Rose Ranch and gave it to the Bureau of Land Management, opening a way in near Trujillo. A gift of the Cañón Ciruela lands in 2021 added nearly ten thousand acres.
What the plaque says
Official Scenic Historic Marker Canadian River Canyon Flowing out of the Rockies, the Canadian River has cut a gorge 600 feet deep through sedimentary strata of the High Plains. Rim elevation is 5,400 feet.
Where it stands
35.91644, -104.36008 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Mills Canyon — 9.5 mi
- Wagon Mound — 20 mi