Hovenweep © 2001 Larry Martin

The San Juan River, teeming with battling rainbow and brown trout, is only one of the fascinations that abound in the Four Corners. Not far from your private river access at Soaring Eagle Lodge are world-class cultural and recreational treasures found nowhere else in the contiguous forty-eight states.

• Ancient Pueblan Indian ruins dating to 900 A.D. are scattered across private and public lands throughout the region.  Among the latter are Chaco Canyon and its hundreds of outliers, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, Canyon de Chelly and the Crow Canyon Archeological Center.
• The rugged San Juan Mountains in Colorado from which the river springs are a crossroads for hikers, climbers, skiers, mountain bikers and outdoor recreationists of all persuasions.
• Nearby Shiprock and Dulce are population centers of the Navajo and Jicarilla Apache tribes, respectively.
• Farmington is the regional trading post for the Four Corners and an outlet for Native American arts and crafts.
• Durango and Chama offer old-fashioned steam engine railroad tours that explore vastly different landscapes over the mountain passes in Colorado and northern New Mexico.

Farther away, but still within striking distance, are Taos, Santa Fe, Telluride, Moab and the natural wonderlands of Southeast Utah such as Arches National Monument, the subject of Edward Abbey's unique journal, Desert Solitaire.

• Farmington, New Mexico
• Durango, Colorado
• Pagosa Springs, Colorado
• Wines of the San Juan
• Youth Outdoors
• The Chama Valley
• Taos, New Mexico
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Mesa Verde National Park
• Chaco Culture National Historical Monument
• Narrow Gauge Railways
• Lake Navajo
• Canyon de Chelly National Monument
• Crow Canyon Archeological Center
• Arches National Park
• Canyonlands National Park
• Lake Powell
• The Navajo Nation
• The Jicarilla Apache Nation
• The Southern Ute Tribe
• The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
• NM Fishing Licenses