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Where is Chaco Canyon?

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Where is Chaco Canyon?

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Chaco Canyon is in northwest New Mexico. This area is known as the Four Corners, where northwest New Mexico, northeast Arizona, southeast Utah and southwest Colorado meet. This area is also the San Juan Basin and part of the Colorado Plateau. Chaco Canyon is 150 miles northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico — that’s about 3 hours driving time (the last 20+ miles are dirt road). [The map to the right is a link to a larger Adobe Acrobat file with many more related areas shown.] See also: Ah, Wilderness!: The Roads to Chaco Canyon for a description and map of the dirt roads into Chaco Canyon (on my blog).