Desert Trails Community Park

Desert Trails Park is a hidden park within the Sonoma Ranch neighborhood. If you drive too fast you may miss the entrance, which looks like a gated community from the streets. Other than the nice clean pavement trail, the park looks natural and raw with lots of schrubs around. It's great for dog walkers but there are wild animals as the sign illustrates. Once towards the center of the park, you get a beautiful view of Las Cruces on its hill.

We love to walk these easy trails with our 2 dogs, enjoying the beautiful scenery. It would be perfect if there were a few BENCHES scattered throughout for us older folks who would like to sit for a brief rest! Then we would give the part 5 stars! We cannot enjoy the whole park because it is a rather long walk back to the parking lot. It would be wonderful to have a few shaded benches - but if not, one can carry an umbrella easily enough. We meet other retirees walking there but with no resting places (for people and dogs) it is prohibitive. Thankfully, the Veterans Park does have some benches scattered on their lovely trails.