Albuquerque Bosque: Montano Rd to Central Rd (East Side)

Dogs Off-leash

E-Bikes Unknown

No easy restroom access and keep an eye out for pedestrians and their off-leash dogs.

This piece of the bosque is often one of the coolest due to shade throughout.

The route can be done in either direction and connects Central Rd to Montano Rd. The trail starts at a parking lot on the west side of the Montano bridge at a trail access parking lot. A pedestrian/bike lane separated by concrete barriers exists on Montano Rd and is used to reach the east side of the river at the start, providing east Bosque Trail access via a couple paved feet of trail which quickly forks to the right on to dirt singletrack.

The trail then roughly parallels the paved trail utilizing one short paved section, otherwise, the entire route is singletrack. There are many branch offs in the bosque but as long as you keep closest to the river and follow the majority of the bike tracks you'll be fine.

Note that a small section of trail, which has been avoided here, is hiker-only under the I-40 overpass.

This trail is heavily trafficked by users of all kinds with dogs on and off-leash and frequent photo sessions. The route outlined here avoids most hiker/walker traffic but, as always, maintain a controllable speed on this trail as many corners are tight and blind.

This and the Corrales Bosque trails are the best in the spiderweb of trails throughout the Albuquerque Rio Grande Bosque.

This trail can be linked up with the other Albuquerque Bosque trails to span from Rio Rancho in the north to Los Lunas in the south utilizing 100% singletrack although the most commonly-used sections lie between Rio Bravo Rd (south) and the Willow Creek trailhead and Open Space (north).