The hoodoos toadstools of Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah — New Mexico

Hoodoos for the adventurous in New Mexico

For those with enough adventurous spirit, and the right vehicle, and the in the desert with not-so-accurate-GPS navigating skills, somewhere far south of Bloomfield, New Mexico, some 18 miles down dirt roads, you can find Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Area and its amazing hoodoos. What are hoodoos? They are a rock formation that look like toadstool mushrooms. This was actually my second hoodoos rock formation site to visit (check out the first). What an alien landscape this was to explore with the hoodoos forming on the banks of an arroyo, very, very far from any civilization. This is a fantastic New Mexico True site to visit. There is a map at the bottom of this blog post, and be sure and watch the video below I made right in the middle of the hoodoos!

Thanks to Jessica for helping with the video and for finding this very cool natural site on Atlas Obscura. We actually did not have any plan to even visit this place when we woke up that morning, but added it to the list of adventures for the day.