Paddling near Rio Rancho, NM

Set in Sandoval County along the western edge of the Rio Grande Valley, Rio Rancho sits a few minutes from the Rio Grande, whose bosque corridor offers calm, beginner-friendly day floats with no technical rapids. The signature Coronado run covers 9.5 miles from Algodones to north Corrales through Santa Ana Pueblo. Flatwater paddlers head north to Cochiti Lake and the high Jemez Mountains' Fenton Lake.