The New Mexico Challenge - McKinley County Traditional Cache

McKinley County

This cache is part of the New Mexico Challenge. One cache is hidden in each of New Mexico's 33 counties.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it is to find and log all 33 caches with a photo of yourself at the cache site.

This Challange cache is easily accessible from I-40 on County Road 400 which goes to Fort Wingate, the village. CR 400 is paved and continues to the Cibola National Forest where it becomes Forest Road 50. This is a very good gravel road leading to Quaking Aspen and McGaffey campgrounds. The cache is small about 2.5 times the size of a 35mm film cannister. It is about one half mile from the nearest cache, which is Lewis the Woodpecker, GCGF5Y.

We (Zuni Kid & Enabler) placed three new caches along this road so a cacher can bag four within a few miles of I 40 on good roads.

All the desert/forest caveats apply, like snakes etc.

This is beautiful ponderosa pine forest rolling hills with open meadows country. FR 50 is good for several more miles but becomes very primitive after a while. FR50 crosses the Zuni Mountains ending on US 53 near El Morro.