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Alkali Flat Trail
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Oct–Apr · highs 13–25 °C (55–77 °F)
- J13°0°14
- F16°2°13
- M20°5°9
- A25°9°10
- M30°15°13
- J34°20°18
- J34°21°34
- A32°20°48
- S30°17°39
- O24°11°32
- N18°5°16
- D13°0°23
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Length
- 6.3 km · 3.9 mi (agency length field)
- Source
- USGS National Digital Trails (US public domain)
- Managed by
- National Park Service
- Data from
- National Park Service
- Nearest town
- 19 km W of Holloman Air Force Base (Otero County, New Mexico) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- White Sands National Park
- Best months
- Oct–Apr
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- New Mexico
- Continent
- North America
- Route centre
- 32.8333, -106.3041
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.