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    New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    I’m going to New Mexico at the end of April and I wonder if any local could suggest where I might find such a location described in a novel;

    “ ..somewhere in the middle of New Mexico… As far as he could see, on every side, the landscape was heaped up into monotonous red sand-hills, not much larger than haycocks… flattened cones, they were, more the shape of Mexican ovens than haycocks ... red as brick-dust, and naked of vegetation except for smaller juniper trees”

    Thanks for any suggestions. I will be travelling - Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, Abiquiu then across to Cuba and up to Aztec exploring some of the wilderness areas on route then back around ABQ.

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    Re: New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    Hmmm doesn't ring a bell and I have lived here all my life. What novel? Sounds more like the Painted Desert in Arizona. There is plenty more to shoot if that doesn't pan out. Drop me a line and we can talk over a cup of java.
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    Re: New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    OP—
    We must remind ourselves that it was in a novel.
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    Re: New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Collins View Post
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    We must remind ourselves that it was in a novel.

    Maybe by someone who's never even been there. Sounds more like Colorado.


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    Re: New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    Quote Originally Posted by Two23 View Post
    Maybe by someone who's never even been there. Sounds more like Colorado.


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    Re: New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    It's been a long time since I've been out that way, but it sounds a bit like some of the scenery I've seen along I-40 between Albuquerque and the Arizona border. You might give Google Map's Street View feature a try. Let us know if you find it.

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    Re: New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    Yes, I did a quick reoad trip around four corners area 2 years ago and the only the place that I saw fitting the description was the Painted Desert in Arizona. I have come across a Jeep tour company and there are two areas they do, one around the Cabazon area and the other between Albuquerque and Santa Fe and judging from the photos both locations may provide that scenery.

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    Re: New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    Quote Originally Posted by richydicky View Post
    Yes, I did a quick reoad trip around four corners area 2 years ago and the only the place that I saw fitting the description was the Painted Desert in Arizona. I have come across a Jeep tour company and there are two areas they do, one around the Cabazon area and the other between Albuquerque and Santa Fe and judging from the photos both locations may provide that scenery.
    But not those landforms mentioned in the novel as red. I know those areas like the back of my hand. Now granted I am largely a b&w photographer, but not because I am colorblind
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    Re: New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    There are some small hillocks that are a mix of red and white up US Hwy 550 north of San Ysidro. Geologically, it is an interesting area.
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    Re: New Mexico, help with a location of ‘red sand-hills’

    Quote Originally Posted by Jmarmck View Post
    There are some small hillocks that are a mix of red and white up US Hwy 550 north of San Ysidro. Geologically, it is an interesting area.
    Are you talking about towards Cuba or towards Jemez from San Ysidro? Either way those don’t look like what the novel talks about in my way of thinking. Towards Jemez they are more like sandstone bluffs. And they are on the Rez. The Jemez Indians are more territorial these days.
    Towards Cuba there is the area where they dug up all the dinosaur bones. But it is more bluffs too.
    South of San Ysidro is the White Mesa Mountain Biking area. https://goo.gl/images/4fC5q2 There is one valley there that might fit the bill. There is also the wilderness area down that way. I can’t remember the name.
    These areas are not really by Cabezon or between Santa Fe and ABQ.
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