I’m very appreciative to the authors of guidebooks who have been instrumental in much of my hiking career.  To get going in 2012 I picked up the following guides to New Mexico:

Day Hikes and Nature Walks in the Las Cruces – El Paso Area
Greg Magee
Copyright 2004
Southwest Environmental Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico
ISBN: 0-615-12763-0-51295

Hiking New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness
Bill Cunningham and Polly Burke
Copyright 1999
Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT
ISBN: 978-1-56044-738-2

Hiking New Mexico’s Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Bill Cunningham and Polly Burke
Copyright 2002
Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT
ISBN: 0-7627-1103-5

100 Hikes in New Mexico
Craig Martin
Copyright: 2010
The Mountaineers Books, Seattle, WA
ISBN: 978-1-59485-078-3