2017 Map of Ice Caves SE

About this map

El Malpais National Monument dominates this New Mexico landscape, preserving a massive volcanic field where rugged lava flows and cinder cones meet the surrounding high desert. The survey highlights a significant portion of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail as it snakes across the southwestern corner of the sheet, tracing the backbone of the American West. Cutting through the jagged basalt and sandstone formations is the distinctive Hole-In-The-Wall trail, which provides passage through a corridor of older terrain surrounded by younger lava beds. The map illustrates the complex Public Land Survey System boundaries across townships like t7n r12w and t8n r11w, reflecting the intersection of federal conservation land and Western land management in Cibola County.