IMHO, both paper maps from above which depict the Trail to the treasure of Santa Fe, were made to fit in the theory of their maker. The real Trail with its real characteristics, is that carved on the stone tablets, and whatever different version is a tentative to destroy the original concept which was used by the original map maker.
The trail is not a long trip but only few hundred feet away on a very rocky region, and starts from one side ( west ) of a deep ravine and ends on the other side ( east ). This trail on the DON part, follows the only possible way which can connect the sides of the ravine, on a ledge at its head, but in the Cross part they chose to take a different path ( despite they could reach the end point very easy from where the DON map ends ) to make more difficult the path and to approach the end point from the south, climbing literally the cliff face. Also the curved Trail #1 from the Trail stone map is an easy path to follow in comparison with the second part ( cross ) of the stone Trail map.
If you read the Rosalee's coded letter at
https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Lost-Aztec-Treasure , the Trail starts from the big " hall " with the cathredal ( ecclesia from Latin heart stone map ) and ends at the base of the white piramid ( triangulum ) from the second " hall " , close to the white big goat like a horse ( the Horse of Santa Fe ) and passing by the natural arch ( fornix ).