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The Angel Peak Scenic Area is a
The Angel Peak Scenic Area is a BLM
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recreation area located about 15 miles south of Bloomfield in San Juan County, New Mexico. The recreation area, more than 10,000 acres of rugged terrain, features Angel Peak (elevation 6,988 feet), colorful badlands
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded."Badlands" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 2, p. 47. They are characterized by steep slopes, m ...
and deep canyons.
Geology
Angel Peak and the higher terrain are made up of the EoceneSan Jose Formation
The San Jose Formation is an Early Eocene (Wasatchian in the NALMA classification) geologic formation in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado.Paleocene
Angel Peak photo gallery
from BLM
at Americansouthwest.net {{authority control Bureau of Land Management areas in New Mexico Cenozoic New Mexico Protected areas of San Juan County, New Mexico Colorado Plateau
Nacimiento Formation
The Nacimiento Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in the San Juan Basin of western New Mexico (United States). It has an age of 61 to 65.7 million years, corresponding to the early and middle Paleocene. The formation has yielded an ...
: shale, mudstone
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. Mudstone is distinguished from '' shale'' by its lack of fissility (parallel layering).Blatt, H., and R.J. Tracy, 1996, ''Petrology. ...
, and fine sandstone.
Facilities
Three picnic areas and a campground are located along the canyon rim overlooking Angel Peak and the Kutz Canyon badlands. Angel Peak Campground has nine sites available for tent camping, and features a shortnature trail
An educational trail (or sometimes educational path), nature trail or nature walk is a specially developed hiking trail or footpath that runs through the countryside, along which there are marked stations or stops next to points of natural, techno ...
.
Access to the area is via graded county road 7175, from US 550.
See also
*Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Established in 1984, the Wilderness is a desolate area of steeply eroded badlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, exc ...
*Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is located in San Juan County, New Mexico, between Chaco Canyon and the De-Na-Zin Wilderness. Its name is a phonetic transliteration of Navajo " áshįįh łibá" meaning "salt, it is grey (grey salt)". The wilderness ...
*San Juan Basin
The San Juan Basin is a geologic structural basin located near the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States. The basin covers 7,500 square miles and resides in northwestern New Mexico, southwestern Colorado, and parts of Utah a ...
References
External links
Angel Peak photo gallery
from BLM
at Americansouthwest.net {{authority control Bureau of Land Management areas in New Mexico Cenozoic New Mexico Protected areas of San Juan County, New Mexico Colorado Plateau