Erik and I have been finding new places to explore right in El Paso. The Billy Rogers Arroyo Park Nature Resereve is a beautiful park that provides trails for hiking and mountain biking.

The trail starts right behind a private tennis club that Erik and I mistakingly thought was public until we were informed that the club membership is $150.00 a month. Whoops! We won't be playing tennis there again!

The trail is great, as long as there is no rain. Because when the monsoons come this is where the water crashes into. You can see places where the water has cut into the landscape during high floods, pretty amazing stuff.

This trail sort of reminds me of the Boise foothills and how lucky we are to have public open space. Boise was extremely wise to protect so much of its foothills.