Mexican Springs Road is an

Ancestral Puebloan The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, an ...

road that parallels

Coyote Canyon Road Coyote Canyon Road is an Ancestral Puebloan road that leads from South Gap in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park to the southwest region of the San Juan Basin. The road is believed to lead to the Grey Ridge community north of Gallup, New Me ...

. It runs from South Gap in

Chaco Canyon Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a concentration of pueblos. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote c ...

to the southwestern portion of the

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 ...

. It has only been identified through aerial photography, and no physical trace of it is visible from the ground. The lack of

pueblo In the Southwestern United States, Pueblo (capitalized) refers to the Native tribes of Puebloans having fixed-location communities with permanent buildings which also are called pueblos (lowercased). The Spanish explorers of northern New Spain ...

s along its path has led some to question its designation as a Chacoan road.

References

;Bibliography * Colorado Plateau Ancestral Puebloans Post-Archaic period in North America Archaeological sites in New Mexico Chaco Canyon Chaco Culture National Historical Park {{NewMexico-geo-stub