Birdhouse Ridge

Trail Overview

Birdhouse Ridge is an intermediate trail in the Cibola National Forest that gains 650 feet over 2.7 miles as it heads south. It starts at the Tunnel Trailhead off State Highway 337 and continues as a very curvy, narrow, shelfy trail with difficult rock obstacles. There are lots of rocky sections with embedded rocks, slab rock, small blunt ledges, and tight curves between the pinyon pine. The trail has several tight switchbacks in order to get up on top of the mesa, and the trail is a bit shelfy as it climbs up. It has several tricky rock ledge obstacles during the shelfy sections, with chunky, diagonal slabs of rock that are sometimes several-foot-high stair steps, with multiple layers of ledges. A couple of these obstacles are also tricky rock pinches. The rest of the trail is flowy and fun in between the obstacles.

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Difficulty

This is an intermediate single track with several rock ledge obstacles that are challenging due to being several feet high, sometimes on a shelfy narrow section of trail, and with several hairpin switchbacks.

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