K.P. Cienega — a hidden spring-fed meadow in the heart of Mexican gray wolf recovery country, where the lobo runs wild again.
Tucked in the forest near here is a hidden little jewel called K.P. Cienega — a spring-fed mountain meadow, green and wet, ringed by tall pines, with a tiny campground that almost nobody knows about. Cienega is that Spanish word again for a marshy grassland, and these high wet meadows are the secret heart of these mountains: they hold the water, feed the creeks, and draw the wildlife. Listen at dusk and you might hear something genuinely remarkable — the howl of a Mexican gray wolf. This is the heart of the wolf recovery country, where the lobo, hunted to the very edge of extinction, has been brought back to the wild. Somewhere in these ridges and meadows, wild wolves are raising pups again for the first time in half a century. You're passing through one of the wildest corners left in the whole Lower Forty-Eight.