Image of the Day — River camp along the Chama

This is one of the few camping spots on river-right in the day-run stretch of the Rio Chama. In the background is a good portion of the Jurassic and Cretaceous section in north-central NM. There are isolated outcrops of the Triassic Chinle Group at the base of the cliff, overlain by Jurrassic rocks and capped by Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone. The prominent orange-to-yellow Neopolitan-colored cliffs are the Jurassic Entrada Formation.

The turnoff to the Chama River Canyon Wilderness area is Forest Road 151, which heads west from highway 84 just north of Ghost Ranch.