Hike · Apache Kid trailhead

Apache Kid

Distance

11.1 mi

Vertical

3,983 ft

Summit

10,272 ft

Difficulty

Very strenuous

The Apache Kid Wilderness covers 44,626 acres of the southern San Mateo Mountains in the Cibola National Forest, a remote and rugged corner of southwestern New Mexico. Narrow, steep canyons cut between high peaks that crest above 10,000 feet — West Blue Mountain, at 10,338 feet,…

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Rugged cliffs of the Apache Kid Wilderness rise above pinyon-juniper woodland in the San Mateo Mountains of New Mexico. — US Forest Service · Public domain

The San Mateo Mountains roll southeast from the Withington divide, a view across the basins and ranges of Socorro County. — CibolaLover · CC BY-SA 3.0

Looking south across the San Mateo Mountains from a high meadow on the wilderness boundary. — CibolaLover · CC BY-SA 3.0

A backroad winds through grassland toward the foothills of the San Mateo Mountains, the long approach to the Apache Kid trailhead. — Michael Zanussi · CC BY 2.0

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