Trails

Pond Loop  

Open Season: Open year round.  

Length: 0.25 mile  

Location of trail: Located near the Refuge visitor center  

Surface: Gravel 

Difficulty:  Grade: 3.5%, cross slope: 1%, width 6 feet 

Uses: This trail is for pedestrian use only. 

This trail provides a loop around the education pond with group gathering areas, which provide views and interpretive panels.  

Mural Loop 

Open Season: Open year round.  

Length: 1 mile  

Location of trail: Located near the Refuge visitor center  

Surface: Dirt 

Difficulty:  Grade: 3.5 % slope 1%, width 10-15 feet  

Uses: This trail is for pedestrian use only.  

Camino Real del Tierra Adentro   

Open Season: Open year round 

Length: 1.5 miles  

Location of trail: South of the visitor center.  

Surface: Dirt and gravel 

Difficulty:  Grade: 3.5%, cross slope: 1%, width 10 feet  

Uses: This trail is for pedestrian use only.  

North Field Loop - CLOSED due to construction, expected to reopen March 2023

Open Season: Open year round  

Length: 1.5 miles  

Location of trail: north of Visitor Center 

Surface: Dirt 

Difficulty: Grade: 0%, cross slope: 1%, width 10-15 feet  

Uses: This trail is open it pedestrians, jogging, bicycling, horseback riding, and dog walking.

Heads north from the visitor center around the old alfalfa fields.  

Bosque Loop

Open Season: Open year round  

Length: 2.5 miles round trip

Location of trail: West of Visitor Center 

Surface: Dirt 

Difficulty: Grade: 0-10%, cross slope: 1%, width 15-20 feet  

Uses: Open to pedestrians, jogging, biking and dog walking (dogs must be on leash). Horseback riding allowed only on south side of the loop.

Information: Our longest trail provides an overview of the refuge, crossing our storm water swale and going through our bosque extension plantings, where volunteers, local youth crews and local school groups have planted thousands of cottonwoods and willows in an effort to extend bosque habitat onto the old farmland of the refuge. The trail also provides access to the Rio Grande bosque trail network beyond refuge property. Certain sections of this trail may be closed at times due to habitat restoration.