[NMCycling] Sandias Northern Passage Route?

[John Vance]

Thanks for the extra details.  Yes, sounds like this one isn't doable
either.  It would be nice to have a lower elevation ATM option now that
Hagan Loop is no longer available.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 12:31 PM Neil McCasland <neilmcc79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've spotted that alignment too - it's an old old road that used to go all
> the way around from Placitas thru La Madera to Tijeras.    Can see in on
> this map, originally published in 1892 and reprinted in 1925:
>
>
> https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/new_mexico/txu-pclmaps-topo-nm-san_pedro-1889.jpg
>
> The current Tecolote street in Placitas is on that old alignment.    I've
> looked for and spotted the segment your map shows; intersection with public
> road is now on a private lot; and behind (east) of that lot it enters the
> town of Tejon grant which the Diamond Tail Ranch seems to control access to
> now.   I've poked around the SE access too - there is a road from 14 thru
> town of Puertocito, past ghost town of Tejon (on the old map) to the Black
> Mesa Casino I'd driven a few years ago.  Blocked, last time I looked, by
> Diamond Tail gate west of Puertocito, about where public road drops north
> off Golden Open Spaces and connects with Puertocito road.
>
> Neil McC
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 12:06 PM John Vance via Bike-racers <
> bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>
>> Looks like access to it is blocked by private property, and if there was
>> a viable path to the east of the properties involved, it's eroded in the
>> past 15 years.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:39 AM John Vance <
>> adogapanicinapagoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been playing with Strava's auto route creation, and it keeps using
>>> this track from OpenStreetMap.  Does anyone know anything about it?  Have
>>> you ridden it?  Are there legal restrictions against using it?  Is it
>>> passable by bike?  Looking at satellite view it definitely looks sketch but
>>> there are double tracks all along its length.
>>>
>>> Here's the track:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/14573638#map=13/35.3243/-106.3561&layers=N
>>>
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