[NMCycling] Sandias Northern Passage Route?

[George Tapley]

 The road you are speaking of was an old ranch access road on the Old Diamond Tail ranch.  It was always private access through the early 80's when Diamond Tail was still a working ranch.   
Now with all the development in the last 30 years it is a definite no go.
G 
    On Sunday, January 30, 2022, 01:13:02 PM MST, John Vance via Bike-racers <bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:  
 
 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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