High Desert Field Guides
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Welcome to our website. We are a small publisher located in Santa Fe. We want to make your travel more enjoyable and enlightened through the use of printed field guides and this website.

The first series of field guides to the Southwest (beginning with New Mexico) will cover a variety of subjects related to history, culture and the natural sciences. These guides will be an introduction to the subjects in a convenient, inexpensive booklet, utilizing full color graphics and photographs with an engaging text.

Our publications are carefully designed to appeal to the person who wants a brief and handy reference about the topic/places. They are intended to "take-along" or browse while traveling in a car or van, and also to refer to when hiking or walking in areas each guide covers.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument: Trail Map and Geology
Our newest publication...

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument: Trail Map and Geology
"This map gives you a new understanding of nature's work..."

One of the most popular natural places in New Mexico, this map gives is valuable for understanding the geology and formation of these unusual formations

Geology is made interesting by author and volcanologist Kirt Kempter, PhD. This map provides a handy trail guide with dramatic photographs and graphics that explain the geology over the past millennia.