Bear Canyon Scenic Easement
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Bear Canyon Scenic Easement is a park in New Mexico, at a recorded elevation of 2,064 m. Sandia Crest stands 3,255 m to the north, 4.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Bear Canyon Spring, a spring 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 5.5 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2064 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Albuquerque Academy
How to reach it
- 5.5 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 3.9 mi off the Turquoise Trail, National
- 4.0 mi off the Sandia Crest Byway
- 6.0 mi off the Salt Missions Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Pino Canyon Overlook · 3 mi
- Southern Sandias Overlook · 3 mi
- Crinoid Fossils · 3 mi
- The Washout · 3 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sandia Foothills Open Space: 1.8 mi
- Embudito Trailhead Open Space: 2.0 mi
- High Desert Embudito Open Space: 2.0 mi
- High Desert Park: 2.2 mi
- Bear Canyon Open Space East: 2.3 mi
- South Sandia Peak: 2.4 mi
- Jawbone: 2.8 mi
- Dragons Tooth: 3.2 mi
- Hail Peak: 3.3 mi
- Alioth: 3.4 mi
- TWA Flight 260: 3.1 mi
- Sandia Peak Aerial Tramway: 3.2 mi
- Daniels House: 3.6 mi
- RIM-2 Terrier: 7.4 mi
- PGM-11 Redstone Rocket: 7.5 mi
- In Loving Rememberance of Gary Tisone: 1.1 mi
- Shiny Orb Stone: 1.3 mi
- The Five Stones of the Elena Gallegos: 1.3 mi
- 38 Years of Philip B Tollefsrud: 1.3 mi
- t: 2.7 mi
- Official Scenic Historic Marker: 1.3 mi
- Old Shelter: 2.1 mi
- Juan Tabo Cabin: 4.6 mi
- Tijeras Canyon Historical Marker: 6.1 mi
- Public Safety Memorial: 6.2 mi
- Museum of Archaeology and Material Culture: 4.8 mi
- Tinkertown Museum: 5.0 mi
- Tinkertown Museum: 5.0 mi
- Museum of the American Military Family: 6.1 mi
- Tijeras Pueblo Museum: 6.5 mi
- Double Shelter Group Area: 1.3 mi
- Cienega Canyon Picnic Ground: 4.1 mi
- Cienega Canyon Picnic Ground: 4.2 mi
- La Cueva Picnic Site: 4.2 mi
- Dry Camp Picnic Ground: 4.3 mi
- Bear Canyon Spring: 0.3 mi
- Oso Springs: 1.3 mi
- Torro Spring: 3.4 mi
- Old South Sandia Spring: 3.4 mi
- Three Gun Spring: 3.7 mi
- Japanese Memorial Garden: 5.8 mi
- Desert Oasis Teaching Garden: 5.9 mi
- Albuquerque Rose Garden: 6.4 mi
- Garden Center: 6.6 mi
- Winrock Garden: 7.2 mi
- Sandia Mountain Natural History Center: 4.5 mi
- Rio Rancho Bosque Nature Preserve: 12.5 mi
- Rio Rancho Bosque Preserve South Entrance: 12.6 mi
- Trailhead: 13.2 mi
- Wildlife West Nature Park: 15.1 mi
- Travertine Falls: 5.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.4 miles of Bear Canyon Scenic Easement. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandia Crest | N 2° | 3,255 m | 4.1 mi |
| North Sandia Peak | N 358° | 3,184 m | 5.8 mi |
| The Needle | N 356° | 3,127 m | 5.3 mi |
| The Thumb | N 358° | 3,081 m | 3.7 mi |
| The Chimney | N 359° | 3,051 m | 4.3 mi |
| Tombstone | N 359° | 3,048 m | 4.8 mi |
| Jawbone | NNE 19° | 3,014 m | 2.8 mi |
| South Sandia Peak | SSE 150° | 2,982 m | 2.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:44 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 19:47 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 16:19 | 16:58 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 40 | 47 | 54 | 63 | 73 | 76 | 74 | 67 | 56 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Albuquerque Foothills NE, 3 mi away.
- tree cholla312 obs
- Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay192 obs
- scarlet hedgehog cactus186 obs
- Apache plume161 obs
- Southwestern Fence Lizard121 obs
- Sandia Hairstreak118 obs
- Sacred Datura115 obs
- Curve-billed Thrasher111 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1157278371
Day trips start here
- Cedar Crest · 5 mi
- Albuquerque · 12 mi
- Bernalillo · 12 mi
- Edgewood · 16 mi
- Central New Mexico · 22 mi
- Madrid · 24 mi
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