Trail building equestrians of New Mexico

[Una Smith <una.smith AT att.net>]

Marie.Griffith wrote:
>Has anyone taken their horses to the Colorado Sand Dunes National
>Park for horse camping.

Not yet.  It is on my list of places to go with horses.


>The campsites are about 5 miles up from visitors center. You have to leave
>trailers in parking lot near visitors center.

Do you mean you have to ride the horse and pack your stuff 5 miles?
Or that you can drive the truck and ride/pony the horses to the
campsite only after you drop the trailer?  Or that you can tow the
trailer to the campsite, unload, then tow the trailer back to the
parking lot where you drop it?  I wonder what they would expect if 
someone showed up with a horse van?

Is the parking lot secure?

I expect all these questions can be answered with one or two phone
calls to the visitor center.  But why can't they explain it all on
their website?  The official FAQs are pretty sketchy on the little
details.

        Una Smith
        New Mexico