Enchanted Circle tour

Today we took the Enchanted Circle tour that goes from Taos to Questa, Red River Ski area, Enchanted Forrest Ski area, over Bob Cat pass and on to Eagles Nest and Angel Fire.


It was a really beautiful trip over some pretty good roads with the usual construction areas, but all in all pretty good roads for mountain roads.

The town of Taos is really an interesting area. What might be considered as a tourist trap with all kinds of shops and places to eat as well as hotels, motels and B&B's. Many little trinket shops that have most anything you can imagine. Some are locally made and others are from China I am sure.


Taos is near the 7000ft level and the ski areas and the Bob Cat Pass is at almost 9300ft. The towns of Red River and the Enchanted Forrest ski area are near the 8500 to 9000ft altitude.

The trees are beautiful and vary in size depending on the elevation. There are some mountains that do not have any trees on the top. One is called Old Baldy and there does not appear to be much there, maybe some vegetation but not of any size.

We considered coming thru Eagles Nest on our way to Taos as it would save a lot of miles over I40 and coming up from Santa Fe. The narrow and windy mountain roads thru the area of Eagles Nest was relatively hard and slow driving in the van and I would not want to do it in the motor home.

Tomorrow we will be leaving Taos and heading north into Colorado but I do not think we will have too many mountains to contend with, we will just wait and see.