{"id":105,"date":"2004-03-25T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/the-roads-to-chaco-canyon\/"},"modified":"2004-03-25T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T16:58:51","slug":"the-roads-to-chaco-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"The Roads to Chaco Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Thanks for doing this website; it is great.  I do have a question that I have not found an answer for.<\/p>\n<p>I last was at Chaco in the 80&#8217;s . At that time, the only road in was a long, dirt road that was in pretty bad shape much of the time.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to go again this spring, probably late April, in a motorhome. What is the access situation now?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, LC<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LC-<\/p>\n<p>If you drove up from the south (from Navajo 9, which connects Crownpoint to Cuba), that dirt road is about the same as you remember it. I drove it last Fall. <\/p>\n<p>If you came in from the north, that old road was closed after 1995 to protect some of the ruins (particularly Casa Chiquita). There is a different road in from the north (from US550, formerly NM44, 4 lanes and much improved)  and a second one in from the south (also from Navajo 9 at Pueblo Pintado, a tiny town next to an interesting outlier, about a dozen miles east of the old South Road) &#8212; the newer roads merge before turning towards Chaco. Those newer roads are longer and still dirt, but much nicer, as long as there hasn&#8217;t been rain recently.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your comment about my Chaco site. Write again with questions \/ comments and let me know how your trip turns out. You inspired me to mark up this map. <em>mjh<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chaco\/roads.jpg\" alt=\"dirt roads into Chaco Canyon\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for doing this website; it is great. I do have a question that I have not found an answer for. I last was at Chaco in the 80&#8217;s . At that time, the only road in was a long, dirt road that was in pretty bad shape much of the time. I would like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Roads to Chaco Canyon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}