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Residual pavement exists here and there on Walking Box Ranch Road

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7273-walking-box-ranch-rd.jpg I stop briefly at an old corral behind which is an alternate old road leading to Malpais SpringThumbnailsI pass the shot-up 5-mile marker on Walking Box Ranch RoadI stop briefly at an old corral behind which is an alternate old road leading to Malpais SpringThumbnailsI pass the shot-up 5-mile marker on Walking Box Ranch RoadI stop briefly at an old corral behind which is an alternate old road leading to Malpais SpringThumbnailsI pass the shot-up 5-mile marker on Walking Box Ranch RoadI stop briefly at an old corral behind which is an alternate old road leading to Malpais SpringThumbnailsI pass the shot-up 5-mile marker on Walking Box Ranch RoadI stop briefly at an old corral behind which is an alternate old road leading to Malpais SpringThumbnailsI pass the shot-up 5-mile marker on Walking Box Ranch Road

Now that there is no longer much mining activity in the area, I'm guessing that the pavement is no longer being renewed. In my notes from my 2000 trip here, I recorded that someone called this an "oiled road," not a paved road.