DESCRIPTION:  The T12 Telephone Canyon Trail and T20 Rodamaker Canyon Trail form one continuous path and are joined on the ridge where T25 crosses them.  At this common junction, vistas are spectacular and encompass a large portion of the White Mountain Wilderness!   If you walk from one trail to the other, it is suggested that T12 be ascended and T20 be descended, due to the steepness of the latter. The lower end of T12 begins in a recreation residential tract where privately owned homes are on public land. No camping is permitted here.

T20 is steep along its upper section. Views of subalpine meadows are outstanding. The trail moderates in descent as it begins to pass along an intermittent creek and through a treed corridor with open understory. Several oak groves, large and quite old, are present.

To locate the lower end of T20 from Smokey Bear Ranger District Office in Ruidoso, drive NM48 north 8.3 miles to the junction of NM37. Turn left and follow NM37  1.3 miles to FR107, Rio Bonito Road. Turn left (signed Bonito Lake) and follow the narrow two-lane pavement past Bonito Lake to a main road junction with a sign indicating "Westlake Campground 1/8 mile."  Turn left and drive to the Westlake Campground entrance. The trailhead is 1/4 mile beyond the entrance, at the far end of a campground, owned and operated by the City of Alamogordo. If you drive through the campground to the trailhead, a fee may be charged, but you may park for free outside the campground and walk to the trailhead. 

 To reach T20 from its junction with T25, Crest Trail, drive NM532  0.9 mile from the intersection of NM532 and NM48 to the junction of FR 117, Monjeau Lookout Road, and turn right. Follow this mostly graveled route 5.0 miles to a junction on the left, a short road to the T 25 trailhead. Hike T25  0.3 mile to the junction with T12.