A Walk at City of Rocks

 

A Walk at City of Rocks

City of Rocks State Park is small but mighty!!  It covers about one square mile in the Chihuahuan desert region in southern New Mexico.  The City the name refers to the large rock pinnacles rising as high as 40 feet!  These formations occurred when there was a large volcanic eruption about 35 million years ago.  After all these years, the rocks have worn down to the rounded forms they are today.

Here’s our great campsite!  We really like this specific site and try to get it every time we stay here.  We are nestled in between some of those huge volcanic rocks.  It’s actually quite a large site, with plenty of seating space.  We spent a lot of time in our chairs under the tree.

We were camping here for one full day, and in the morning of that day, we decided to walk along and in between the rocks on the hill behind our campsite.  Jeff and Max managed to find a rock with a natural sort of bench carved out.  Taking a rest at the top of the hill!

Every so often as we walked along, we’d come across a nice little quiet spot – this one with a lovely tree setting in it!  I think it would be a great place to meditate, if I meditated!

As I walked past this area where two rocks are very close to each other, I thought that no one could manage to fit through this narrow crevice.  Then, Max shows up at the top of this crevice, very proud of himself, racing around and finding fun new places to explore! When he started down the crevice to reach us, he seemed to get stuck for a minute, because it was so narrow and so steep.  But, after a moment, he just sort of jumped over the narrow, steep area and joined us!

Here’s another great view from up in the rocks.  One thing that’s fun for those folks who camp in tents is that there are a number of tent sites that look similar to this.  Again, nestled in the rocks.  It sometimes feels like you’re protected, as the rocks block some wind, etc.  It’s a very basic, simple place to camp and just relax!

And, the opposite of relax is Max!  I do believe that he walked, ran and jumped at least 2-3 times what we did!  Here are some images of him playing in between the rocks.  He had a grand time, as did we!!

This was our last camping trip of this year, so see you next year!!

Enjoy!