Why this ride
On the way it passes Halfway House, Kin Bineola and back through Halfway House. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Pueblo Pintado and Kin Bineola
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 285 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 23
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Pueblo Pintado
Pueblo Pintado stands in the high desert of northwestern New Mexico, on Navajo land, and it is the easternmost of the great houses connected to Chaco Canyon. Around a thousand years ago the people we call Ancestral Puebloans raised masonry walls here, several storeys tall, laying thin sandstone into patterns that still look careful today. The ruin has been roughened by weather, but the arrangement of rooms, the circular kivas and the long arc of the building are clear, and you can walk around it on a short trail.
Read the complete Pueblo Pintado write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Pueblo Pintado is where the day begins. Next is Halfway House.
2. Halfway House
The Chacoans built roads that do not seem to go anywhere. From Chaco Canyon, the centre of an extraordinary culture that flourished in the San Juan Basin of north-western New Mexico around a thousand years ago, a road known as the Great North Road runs almost due north for about fifty kilometres, straight as a ruler across mesas and washes, toward Kutz Canyon. Along it stand small great houses, and the site known as Halfway House is one of them, a stone structure about halfway along the road, possibly a waystation or a ceremonial marker. Chaco Culture, including outliers like this one, was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1987.
Read the complete Halfway House write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Halfway House comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kin Bineola.
3. Kin Bineola
Over a thousand years ago, the people of Chaco Canyon built great houses of finely laid sandstone, multi-storey buildings with hundreds of rooms and ceremonial kivas, and connected them with roads that ran straight across the desert. Kin Bineola is one of the outlying great houses, some distance south-west of the canyon, on the Navajo Nation in north-western New Mexico. Its walls still stand in places to several storeys, with the characteristic Chacoan masonry of small stones packed between larger ones. It is one piece of the World Heritage property for the Chaco Culture, together with the canyon and other outliers.
Read the complete Kin Bineola write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 148 km into the recorded legs you reach Kin Bineola. Next is back through Halfway House.
4. back through Halfway House
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Halfway House write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Halfway House, late in the day. Next is Pueblo Pintado.
5. Pueblo Pintado
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pueblo Pintado write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Pueblo Pintado. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Pueblo Pintado to Halfway House
Pueblo Pintado → Halfway House is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Halfway House to Kin Bineola
Halfway House → Kin Bineola is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kin Bineola to back through Halfway House
Kin Bineola → back through Halfway House is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Halfway House to Pueblo Pintado
back through Halfway House → Pueblo Pintado is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.