North Hogback Trail

GALLUP NORTH HOGBACK TRAIL

The Gallup area offers so many opportunities to get outside. Doesn't take long to find a trail in our neighborhood or an open space like the hogbacks. A number of people have made the effort to organize our trails by keeping them passable and mapped. That hard work is celebrated every time we venture outside.

On the Northside of Gallup next to the Red Rock Motorsports Club you will find the North Hogback Trail. This is a very rewarding trek that takes you up the hogback and backdown on the other side.

It is an immediate up from the beginning and has a nice switchback design that takes some of the serious steep out

of the hike. Once you get on top you follow the big rock ledges that give you some very nice high desert landscape. Once, at the peak you get the opportunity to check out the cars and trucks zooming by on Interstate 40.

Coming down offers a very different look. You will get the opportunity to walk by what appears to be an old coal operation. The view of the White Cliffs is spectacular and the steep downward climb means you are getting close to the vehicle.

This trail doesn't take a significant amount of time to complete. Something you might try after a summer cookout. You know just to get those heavy burgers and hot dogs to settle before bed.