Description:
Soon after entering the National Forest the trail forks-
the main trail is to your left. The fork to the right crosses
Tesuque Creek, and then follows an old road, passes a junction
with the little used Juan Trail 399, and eventually meets
up with the main trail in about a mile. Continuing on the
main trail you will pass through a lower elevation forest
of piñon pine and juniper, which will soon give way
to ponderosa pine in the canyon bottom. There are numerous
stream crossings, and in about 3 miles you will reach some
nice meadows and the junction with Chamisa
Trail 183 to the south.
In another mile you will pass the junction with Bear
Wallow Trail 182, and then a mile after that the junction
with Borrego Trail 150. Many loop hikes are possible with
all of these trail junctions. For the next mile and a half
the Winsor and Borrego trails share the the same tread, and
the next trail junction is with Big Tesuque Trail 152. A half
mile after this junction the Winsor Trail will cross Forest
Road 102, also called Pacheco Canyon Road. Here the Winsor
and Borrego Trails part company, the Borrego following down
the road for a couple miles, and the Winsor continuing across
the road to the northeast. The trail climbs through a pine
forest with scattered aspen, and crosses several small side
canyons with the occasional stream. The trail will bump against
NM 475 at the Norski Trail 255 Trailhead, crossing the parking
lot, and then descends into the mixed conifer forest again.
Meeting the junction with the Rio
en Medio Trail 163 to the west, the trail joins with Trail
163 and continues to the Ski Santa Fe parking lot, and
Trailhead 10 on the Pecos Wilderness Map (2003 edition), at
the end of NM 475.
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