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The Mount Taylor Ranger District manages land in northern Cibola, southern McKinley, and western Sandoval counties in western New Mexico. Mount Taylor and Zuni Mountains are within the Mount Taylor District. Overseeing approximately 800,000 acres, the Magdalena Ranger District is the largest of the Cibola National Forest's four mountain districts.
Mount Taylor (Navajo: Tsoodził, Navajo pronunciation: [tsʰòːtsɪ̀ɬ] means "The Great Mountain" [3]) is a dormant stratovolcano in northwest New Mexico, northeast of the town of Grants. [4] It is the high point of the San Mateo Mountains [a] and the highest point in the Cibola National Forest. It was renamed in 1849 for then president ...
The San Mateo Mountains are a small mountain range in Cibola and McKinley counties of New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. The highest point in the range is Mount Taylor, at 11,301 ft (3,445 m). The range lies just northeast of the community of Grants, and about 60 miles (100 km) west of Albuquerque.
Mount Taylor National Forest was established as the Mount Taylor Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico on October 5, 1906 with 110,525 acres (447.28 km 2). It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907.
Mount Taylor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States.It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [2]The community is in northern Cibola County and is bordered to the north and west by Grants, the county seat, and to the south by the Rio San Jose and a tributary.
The lands are now part of the Cibola National Forest. [1] The Zuni Forest is part of the Mount Taylor Ranger District of Cibola National Forest, in the Zuni Mountains to the west of Grants in Cibola and McKinley Counties. [2] The forest is bordered on the south by El Malpais National Monument.
Most of the San Mateo Mountains are within the Magdalena Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest. There are two designated wilderness areas in the range, the Apache Kid Wilderness 44,650 acres (181 km 2 ) and the Withington Wilderness 18,869 acres (76 km 2 ).
Big Bead Mesa (Navajo: Yooʼtsoh) is a historic Navajo habitation site near Grants, New Mexico, within Cibola National Forest.Occupied from the mid-18th to early 19th century, the site gives an important window into the relations between the Navajo and the Puebloans of that time.