The Field Atlas
0/363Hills chapter · 32.35° N · 106.56° W
A dinosaur sail of granite. The Needles rise a mile out of the Chihuahuan Desert — vertically jointed quartz monzonite.
The Needles look like organ pipes from town and like a sail from the basin. The rock is 36 million years old. Las Cruces looks at it every day. Few people walk the ridgeline.
A private leaf
Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.
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Opening the leaf…
Onward
The nearest plates, by the miles.
White Sands33 miles · New MexicoVI
Hueco Tanks42 miles · TexasCCLI
City of Rocks84 miles · New MexicoCXX
Valley of Fires100 miles · New MexicoCXXI
Guadalupe Mountains104 miles · TexasLXVIII
Gila Wilderness116 miles · New MexicoLXXXII
Chiricahua165 miles · ArizonaLXIII
El Malpais195 miles · New MexicoCCLXXIXFold-out
