New Mexico-Colorado Border

We’ll travel east to west along the Colorado-New Mexico line because that’s how Ehud N. Darling surveyed the line in 1868.

Darling’s survey was noteworthy because of a surveying error that he recognized at Mile 211 and 47.73 chains. He’d given away a skinny pie piece of New Mexico to Colorado but never corrected his error. New Mexico took Colorado to court to win back the sliver of land, but the Federal Court in Denver ruled that bygones were bygones.

Colorado-New Mexico locations,
east to west

CO, NM, OK: Tri-state-corner

CO NM Mile 8.5: Wedding Cake Ranch

CO-NM Mile 24 + 62 chains

CO-NM Mile 84

CO-NM: Mile 114 + 69.84 chains

CO-NM Mile 115

CO-NM Mile 131

CO-NM Mile 135

CO-NM Mile 136 & 137

CO-NM Mile 138: In the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant

CO-NM: Mile 147: on the Rio Grande: Sky Valley Ranch

CO-NM Mile 152

CO-NM: Mile 162 + 22 chains

CO-NM: Mile 165 + 53.60 chains and
Mile 166

CO-NM Mile 188 + 57 chains: The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail

CO-NM Mile 207

CO-NM: Mile 211 47.73 chains: The epicenter of a lawsuit

CO-NM: Mile 213 + 49.90 chains

CO-NM Mile 251 + 17.40 chains

CO-NM: Mile 268 + 13.3 chains– Cox Canyon

CO-NM: Mile 271: The Chaco Meridian

CO-NM Mile 274 + 39 chains

CO-NM Mile 283 + 40 chains

CO-NM Mile 307

CO-NM: Mile 313 +19.6 chains

CO-NM: Mile 313 + 68 chains

CO-NM: Mile 329 + 20 chains

AZ-UT-NM-CO: Four Corners