Catwalk National Recreation Trail
author: New Mexico Tourism Department
source date: 2025
availability: web

New Mexico Tourism page on the Catwalk trail in the Gila National Forest. Covers the original plank-board walkway on the steel pipeline; the Helen Mining Company developing 13 claims about 4 miles upstream; the 3-mile-long, 4-inch pipeline; the 18-inch pipeline built in 1897 for a larger generator; pipe delivered by wagon teams of up to 40 horses; ore pulled down to an ore chute; brace holes chiseled 20 feet up the rock walls; the 1930s CCC rebuilding for recreation; Billy the Kid's stepfather William Antrim's blacksmith shop at Graham; the trail being one of the most unique in the region.