Walk to the mountain: Kasha-Katuwe (Tent Rocks) National Monument, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico
One of the most surreal places on earth, the Kasha-Katuwe National Monument (Tent Rocks) in Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. The videos were shot on the GoPro Hero3+, stills on the iPhone5. Music composed and mixed in ProTools10 using Garritan and Synthogy voices.
Kasha-Katuwe • Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located approximately 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, near Cochiti Pueblo. It was established as a U.S. National Monument by President Bill Clinton in January 2001. Kasha-Katuwe means white cliffs in the Pueblo language Keresan.
Kasha-Katuwe is located on the Pajarito Plateau around 6000 feet above sea level. The area owes its remarkable geology to layers of volcanic rock and ash deposited by pyroclastic flow from eruptions within the volcanic field of the nearby Jemez Mountains. Many of the layers are light in color, which is the origin of the monument's Keresan name. Over time, weathering and erosion of these layers has created slot canyons and tent rocks. The tent rocks are composed of soft pumice and tuff. Most of the tent rocks have a distinctly conical shape and some retain their caprocks of harder stone. The tent rocks vary in height from a few feet to 90 feet.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is located 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico (near Cochiti). Kasha-Katuwe means white cliffs in the Pueblo language Keresan. The area owes its remarkable geology to layers of volcanic rock and ash deposited by pyroclastic flow from a volcanic explosion within the Jemez Volcanic Field that occurred 6 to 7 million years ago. Over time, weathering and erosion of these layers has created canyons and tent rocks. The tent rocks themselves are cones of soft pumice and tuff beneath harder caprocks, and vary in height from a few feet to 90 feet.
The monument is open for day use only and may be closed by order of the Cochiti Pueblo Tribal Governor. A 1.2 mile (1.9 km) recreation trail leads up through a slot canyon to a lookout point where the tent rocks may be viewed from above. A 1.3 mile (2 km) loop trail leads past their base.
KASHA-KATUWE TENT ROCKS NATIONAL MONUMENT
KASHA-KATUWE TENT ROCKS NATIONAL MONUMENT
Tent Rocks Canyon trail is 3 miles out and back hiking trail through a slot canyon with hoodos and striated rock formations. It is a religious site of the Cochiti Pueblo.
(Video) Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks Monument, New Mexico
Exotic cone-shaped formations in a National Monument. The cone-shaped tent rock formations are the products of volcanic eruptions that occurred 6 to 7 million years ago and left pumice, ash and tuff deposits over 1,000 feet thick. Tremendous explosions from the Jemez volcanic field spewed pyroclasts (rock fragments), while searing hot gases blasted down slopes in an incandescent avalanche called a pyroclastic flow. In close inspections of the arroyos, visitors will discover small, rounded, translucent obsidian (volcanic glass) fragments created by rapid cooling
NM True TV Kasha Katuwe Tent Rocks
This national monument offers a relatively easy hike to a surprisingly stunning overlook. The tent rocks are cones of volcanic material worn into their unusual shapes over eons. And the trip to the top includes a slot canyon and multiple stops you will have to make to pull out your camera. #NewMexicoTRUE
Tent Rocks- Cochiti, New Mexico
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Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
Our last major adventure on our Honeymoon road trip lead us to Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico. This place was absolutely beautiful! It's a wonderful area to hike with awesome scenic views of the rocks and canyon. We did not get to finish the complete trail but I'd highly recommend doing it if you can. We'd love to go back and try it again since Abby had a bum leg that day. One of New Mexico's hidden gems!!
COCHITI VISITOR CENTER, NEAR SANTA FE, NM, & Tent Rock Monument
THERE IS A NEW, VISITOR CENTER NOW ON THE ROAD TO THE TENT ROCK NATIONAL MONUMENT AND CLOSE TO SANTA FE,NEW MEXICO, THE PUEBLO DE COCHITI HAS SOME VERY SPECIAL ARTISANS SPECIALIZING IN DRUM MAKING, POTTERY, JEWELRY, AND T SHIRTS. ALL ARE ON DISPLAY FOR PURCHASE AT THE VISITOR CENTER ALONG WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER TYPES OF SOUVENIRS. BE SURE TO VISIT OR PLAN A VISIT WHEN YOU ARE NEARBY IN SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
A Guide to Tent Rocks Natl Monument - Ashwin Enjoys Nature
This NM in NM encompasses everything that makes this state the Land of Enchantment. This park is so nice, it was named twice. It's also called Kasha Katuwe...which in Spanish, means nothing, because it is a Pueblo Keresan word.
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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument.
A portion of the 5-mile access road to the national
monument crosses Pueblo de Cochiti tribal land. Along with the pueblo, neighbors in the vicinity include the Santo Domingo Indians, the Jemez Indians, private landowners, the Santa Fe National Forest and State of New Mexico.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
is located approximately 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe and 55 miles northeast of Albuquerque.
Kasha-Katuwe means 'white cliffs' in Keresan, the traditional language of the nearby Pueblo de Cochiti.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is on the southeast side of the Valles and Toledo calderas, large collapse features that formed during voluminous eruptions in the Jemez Mountain volcanic field 1.61 and 1.25 million years ago. Tent Rocks encompasses a fascinating landscape in the southeastern Jemez Mountains.
Delicately layered sand, gravel, volcanic ash, and tuff of the Peralta Tuff Member of the Bearhead Rhyolite and sand and gravel of the Cochiti Formation have been eroded into fragile to robust spires with balanced rocks perched on top. The hoodoos, erosional cones, and pedestal rocks that characterize Tent Rocks form as the result of differential erosion . Water and, to a lesser extent, wind erosion preferentially attacks the moderately-indurated sand and ash grains around the base of large blocks in the gravel-rich beds. Eventually, the gravel clasts rest on pedestals, thus protecting the underlying sand and ash from further erosion. As time passes, the capstones are gradually undermined and the rocks topple, leaving an unprotected cone.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument looks like a fantasyland of conically topped sentries standing guard over the desert between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. The unusual rock formations are the remains of layers of rock and ash deposited by ancient volcanic eruptions.
On the edge of the Rio Grande Valley, centuries of erosion cut towers and narrow canyons in the soft pumice and tuff. It is a unique and colorful landscape, with the walls painted in layers and cavities left in the mountainside where harder stones were dislodged.
Two main trails take visitors back to the most spectacular formations and the best views of the surrounding country. Although portions of the hike are ADA accessible, the 1.5-mile Slot Canyon Trail traverses a slot canyon and climbs almost 1,000 feet to a scenic overlook.
The 1.5 mile (one-way) Slot Canyon Trail is rather more interesting, one of the best short trails in the state. This branches off the Cave route and joins a stony wash that soon narrows to a proper slot canyon through the tuff. The ravine has curvy walls just a few feet apart but many feet deep, long, shady passageways through generally smooth rocks containing embedded pebbles, and just a few obstructions caused by dryfalls and chokestones; the maximum height is about three feet. The pretty slot opens out quite suddenly after a quarter of a mile, to a still narrow gorge that contains a few tall trees growing in the streambed, after which the canyon ascends more steeply, through another brief narrow part then climbs even more sharply to the top of the plateau, where it splits into several paths that lead to viewpoints looking out over the Tent Rock formations, down Peralta Canyon and across to the far away Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountains. The total elevation gain is 640 feet. The plateau is more sparsely vegetated than the valley floor, bearing grasses, wildflowers and manzanita bushes.
The most spectacular rocks are all around the last part of the trail, where they rise up to 90 feet, pure white, smoothly tapering and altogether very impressive. The path is popular, and despite the above average difficulty, most people manage to get to the end.
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What a great place Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument was to visit, I spent the hole day there and really enjoyed it a lot. It was a long hike but well worth it. The hike up was 65 stories high
and had to climb up rock a rocky path and had to go though real skinny and tight passage. The rock formations really do look like tents or teepees, I would go back again. Oh!! I did get Naked at my van in the park...With Veggie Kale Blazer Kale is king of the garden. And when its dark, leafy greens are blended with cucumber, spinach, celery, and a pinch of ginger, you get a royal round table of yum that will help you take charge and rule the day. Long live the greens. Yes it was good :)
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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
A visit to Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico administered by the Cochiti Pueblo and the BLM. The volcanic ash layers have eroded into these conical tent forms. It was really windy that afternoon.
Daytime adventures
This weekend I went up to the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks, a National Monument in the Cochiti Pueblo area. I also visited the Botanical Gardens here in Albuquerque. Remember to like and Subscribe, thanks for watching.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument - Hiking the Slot Canyon Trail
I went on a hike at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico. This video was captured with my GoPro Hero3 video camera in a first person view (FPV) perspective on the Slot Canyon Trail.
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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument NM
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument & Slot Canyon
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument & Slot Canyon
The National Monument is found on the Pajarito Plateau of north-central New Mexico.
The tent rock formations occurred 6 to 7 million years and are the result of volcanic eruption which occurred at that time.
Cave Loop Trail is 1.2 miles long and is an easy hike. Canyon Trail is a 1.5-mile, one-way trek into a narrow canyon ending in a steep (630-ft) climb to the top of the mesa where you find outstanding views of the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia mountains and the Rio Grande Valley.
You are advised to have water for each member of your party. The visitor area is primitive. Park Staff diligently remove hikers from the mesa before the close of the park each day.