Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
A simple sign marks the closed forest road into Zinker Canyon that this hike begins on.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
The trail heads up a steady ascent into Zinker Canyon.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
The landscape is a narrow meadow enclosed by forested slopes.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
Tracing a soft dirt single track, this is a generally easy and peaceful hike.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
The meadow environment of the loop trail tends to be a quieter alternative to the busier trails more central to the town of Cloudcroft.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
At 1.2 miles in, a marked forest road leaves the main trail and begins heading up a small side canyon.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
The roadbed makes a wide trail.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
The population of wild horses is one of the draws of visiting Zinker Canyon.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
Horses along the hike.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
A small guzzler spring sits on the saddle at the top of the loop.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
Zinker Canyon wild horses.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date: 
03/07/2025
A descent down another meadow completes the loop portion of the hike before reconnecting to the main trail and the return to the Zinker Canyon trailhead.