Coyote Canyon- Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument

Coyote Canyon is a major tributary of Broad Canyon. It begins as a shallow draw  in the basin east of the Cedar and Rough and Ready Hills. It gathers two major tributaries, Silva and Lloyd Well Canyons, and many smaller ones as it heads north to its confluence with Broad near the Kimball Place.The last mile or so is a box canyon, where we walked on a rapidly warming December morning last week. There's a good road in the bottom, and we walked on it at times and in the gravel wash itself at others. Colorful cliffs of conglomerate and volcanic rock lined the sides of the canyon.  They were similar though not as tall or dramatic as those in the nearby box of Broad Canyon.

Coyote Canyon

When the box petered out,  I was not in the least excited about continuing  up the now wide and shallow wash that cut through a landscape of the monotonous low hills, so we went up onto the mesa on the west side using a little used  road that leads to water storage tank.Up on the mesa we had good views of the Cedar Hills highpoint on the east and the Rattlesnake Hills on the west.

From there we took another old road that heads north across the mesa top and which brought us right back down to the corral area at the Kimball Place. It took us a minute or two but we managed to find our way out of the maze of pens and gates to our vehicle,which was good because I sure didn't feel like climbing any fences.
NOTE: The land around the old Kimball Place is still private property. Be respectful.