Things To Do
Catwalk Recreation Area
Joe worked the Whitewater Baldy complex in 2012. The fire started as two separate fires, the Whitewater fire which was detected on May 16 and the smaller Baldy fire that started earlier on May 9, both from lightning strikes. The fires merged on the 24th of May. The fire burned more than a dozen residences and caused the evacuation of several small towns and forced the closure of the Catwalk Recreation Area above Glenwood, New Mexico. The fire grew rapidly at a rate of 20,000 acres per day. Rain showers in mid-July helped firefighters reach 95% containment by July 23 and 100% containment by July 31 and burned over 288,000 acres. The fires burned over 60 square miles of the Whitewater Baldy watershed basin just above the town of Glenwood. After the fires the USFS decided it was too high of a risk to leave the catwalk bridges sprawled across the canyon for the possibility of damming up with trees, and other debris associated with the fire, and potentially flood the town of Glenwood below.
San Francisco Hot Springs
San Francisco Hot Springs parking is accessible via a hike. The San Francisco Hot Springs trailhead is located at the end of a one-half-mile long dirt road. The trail to the hot springs is a 1.5-mile moderately-difficult hiking trail. At the trailhead in the end of a dirt road, there is a public restroom and a bulletin board. You need to forge across the San Francisco River to get to the hot springs.
Mogollon
Mogollon, also called the Mogollon Historic District, is a former mining town located in the Mogollon Mountains in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. Located east of Glenwood and Alma, it was founded in the 1880s at the bottom of Silver Creek Canyon to support the gold and silver mines in the surrounding mountains.
Dragonfly Trail
Beautiful hiking trail!