{"id":3192,"date":"2026-01-10T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:45:01","slug":"where-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3192","title":{"rendered":"Chaco Canyon Road &#8211; NW New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3193\" style=\"width: 1973px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Exit-south-via-Chaco-Canyon-Rd.-SR-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3193\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Exit-south-via-Chaco-Canyon-Rd.-SR-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1973\" height=\"1480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chaco Canyon Road, looking south.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Where to go?\u00a0 Toward an expansive horizon is always my first choice.\u00a0 In the case of Chaco Canyon Road, the southern exit from Chaco Culture National Historic Park, it was 40+ miles of dirt road across the Navajo Reservation with the warning sign declaring, &#8220;Road not maintained, may be impassable to passenger cars.&#8221;\u00a0 There are no structures, no signs of habitation the length of that road.\u00a0 There are steep drops into and out of arroyos that flood with cloudbursts, as well as deeply rutted mud slumps that require 4WD to cross even in dry weather.\u00a0 There are no guarantees.\u00a0 But being alone with the unknown is a great way to get to know yourself.\u00a0 \u00a0 [Photo <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\" alt=\"copyright symbol\" width=\"20\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a> Max Vollmer, Click on image to enlarge]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where to go?\u00a0 Toward an expansive horizon is always my first choice.\u00a0 In the case of Chaco Canyon Road, the southern exit from Chaco Culture National Historic Park, it was 40+ miles of dirt road across the Navajo Reservation with the warning sign declaring, &#8220;Road not maintained, may be impassable to passenger cars.&#8221;\u00a0 There are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chaco Canyon Road &#8211; NW New Mexico<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3244,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}