Hiking trails near Farmington, New Mexico

42 official trails lie within 25 miles of Farmington — 123 miles in total, 31 rated easy and 3 hard or expert. Every distance and elevation figure below is computed from the agency centerline and a 10 m elevation model, not crowd-sourced.

The biggest climb nearby gains 500 ft; the median trail gains 153 ft.

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24 trails worth the drive

Trail	Miles	Climb	Difficulty	From town
Loop 1	11.6	500 ft	Expert	5 mi
Alien Run	9.5	436 ft	Hard	20 mi
Outer Limits	6.8	304 ft	Hard	21 mi
Mountain View Trail Long Loop	7.1	330 ft	Moderate	14 mi
Road Apple West	5.2	388 ft	Moderate	8 mi
Loop Trail	4.5	411 ft	Moderate	5 mi
Lake view high point	5.0	167 ft	Moderate	11 mi
B-Line to Buzzard Point	4.3	189 ft	Moderate	7 mi
Sherrif's Posse Equestrian Trail	4.3	246 ft	Moderate	5 mi
Limber	5.2	142 ft	Moderate	9 mi
Mood Swings	2.8	142 ft	Easy	4 mi
Caballo Canyon Trail	2.9	236 ft	Easy	23 mi
Ruskers Ridge	1.6	373 ft	Easy	14 mi
Whoops Trail	1.7	286 ft	Easy	8 mi
Loop 3	2.4	237 ft	Easy	10 mi
Pinon Mesa Trail	1.9	208 ft	Easy	6 mi
Kinsey	3.4	104 ft	Easy	8 mi
Allan Christy	2.0	199 ft	Easy	10 mi
Area 51	3.3	118 ft	Easy	21 mi
Kinsey Alternate	2.3	153 ft	Easy	8 mi
Animas River Trail	4.8	92 ft	Easy	1 mi
Return from Ridge Lines	1.4	282 ft	Easy	9 mi
Bonk Rock Trail	1.2	216 ft	Easy	7 mi
Seven Sisters Trail	1.7	127 ft	Easy	6 mi

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