Chaco Canyon well worth the drive!
Many thanks to all who encouraged us to dare the road into Chaco Canyon. It was well worth it! I called the Park from Bernalillo on Monday morning and the ranger said he thought we would be ok and tha...
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Just visited Chaco last week and it truly lived up to the descriptions. The road is bad, at least the middle 4 miles of the 13 miles of dirt. Not a place to take an RV, unless a rental (LOL, as we saw them inside the park). Park Ranger told me about 35K people visit a year, low visit rate due mostly to the bad roads. Many don't want to change it; the Park Rangers want it paved. All the roads in the park are paved. The Navajo don't want it paved and they own the land around Chaco. We stayed a few nights at Desert Rose in Bloomfield (everything as promised per website). It was a nice place as we were only there in the evenings. If in the Bloomfield area, go north 10 miles to Aztec and see those ruins (takes about 1 hour to see it all). Much smaller than Chaco, but without the bad road and without spend the whole day on the adventure.
