Upper Mesteño Bouldering

[MP admin note:] Please do not drive on the roads to Mesteño Canyon when they're muddy. These roads are susceptible to major rutting and erosion when wet. Increased traffic is doing major damage to these fragile roads. When the roads are muddy please consider bouldering at the zones in the main Mills Canyon area. If you still choose to drive out to the areas while the roads are muddy, STAY ON THE ROAD. Do not drive around muddy sections which results in road widening. 

The roads can have deep ruts in them and a low clearance vehicle, like a sedan, is not recommended. In the winter of 2023/2024, the FS put gravel down on many sections of the roads which has been very helpful. 

From the main Mills Canyon road as you enter the signed Kiowa National Grasslands, take a left turn onto the signed K-90 road south (near the Smokey Bear sign.) Follow this road to a cattleguard and continue rightwards on the signed K-90. Drive K-90 for a few minutes until you get to a sharp left turn signed as K-87. Follow this to another cattleguard and then follow rightwards for a couple of miles until you reach a crossroads. Go HARD LEFT (going slightly back on yourself) at this crossroad intersection for Upper & Middle Mesteño.See this map showing the closed road and the appropriate way to drive to the Mesteño Canyon areas.

After a short distance, take a left for Upper Mesteño (the road to the right goes to Middle Mesteño). Continue heading east until you reach the loop at the end of the road. This is the parking for Upper Mesteño.

From the parking area, find the cairns on the north side of the loop to follow the trail down the hill. Step over the barbed wire fence, and follow more cairns across a very cool streambed wash and up a hill. After cresting the hill, the trail splits. The left trail takes you to the World Wide area, and the right trail takes you to the roof areas.