Explore Lybrook Badlands, New Mexico

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Lybrook Badlands was formed about the same time as the Bisti and Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah. This region offers a uniquely different scale of landscape. Hoodoo in this region are massive and the terrain much greater in elevation differences, thereby exposing a greater geological time frame than the Bisti or Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah. The Lybrook Badlands is a strip of eroded cliffs that runs north-south to the west of US highway 550, starting south of Counselor and running up to north of Lybrook. The mile marker on 550 is around 100. The area west of the highway is mostly BLM land with a few Navajo holdings here and there. There are no signs; it's mostly BLM land that has been extensively developed for gas and oil extraction. Because of the gas and oil industry, the area is riddled with crisscrossing dirt roads of varying quality. When the roads get wet, they are mostly impassable without a 4WD vehicle, and even then you might get mired axle-deep in mud. When dry, the roads are navigable by a high-clearance vehicle. Extreme caution is required when driving on as these roads as they are impassible when wet.

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