Bear Canyon in Albuquerque, NM

Bear Canyon is a residential neighborhood in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights, set along the Bear Canyon Arroyo north of the city-run Arroyo del Oso golf course. Mossman-Gladden developed it through the 1970s and early 1980s, one of four neighborhoods the firm built between Candelaria and San Antonio, San Mateo and Wyoming, and among the last it finished. By then the company had retired its old model names and sold plans by number. Winding, tree-lined streets carry over from its earlier tracts, and a paved path follows the arroyo east from the golf course toward Juan Tabo.

Mossman-Gladden worked in Albuquerque from the late 1940s into the early 1980s. Altamont came first in the late 1950s, then Stardust Skies and Highlands North through the 1960s and 1970s, each generation of plans a little larger than the one before it.

The Bear Canyon Neighborhood Association is registered with the city's Office of Neighborhood Coordination and sits on the Council District 4 roster. It is a voluntary neighborhood group rather than a homeowners association covering the area as a whole.

The arroyo doubles as the local recreation corridor. Its paved path runs about five and a half miles in total, counting a western leg behind the Group Nine industrial area, and at the eastern end it reaches El Oso Grande Park, where a short concrete loop circles sports fields past a playground and picnic tables. The city's Bear Canyon Senior Center, named for the same drainage, serves weekday meals and runs a membership activities program.