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National Historical Park · NM

Pecos National Historical Park

Pecos is a natural and cultural crossroads through which hunters, gatherers, traders, missionaries, immigrants, soldiers, ranchers, and other travelers passed and lived. Follow in their footsteps and imagine Pecos through the centuries. Visit sites where cultural demonstrations and traditional practices continue today - a living legacy of the people who passed this way. At Pecos, past is present.

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Photos

Church and preservation workers in distance, kiva in foreground.jpg (943 kb)
Clouds gather on a summer day at the mission church
An adobe building under cloudy skies.
As the largest remaining building from the 1700s, the Mission Church draws in folks on the Ancestral Sites Trail every day.
Reenactors prepare a cannon under a mesa and blue skies.
Civil War Encampment reenactors ready a black powder cannon demonstration in front of Glorieta Mesa,
A line of people walk past adobe bricks, trees, and the road.
The Feast Day of Pecos Pueblo draws in hundreds from Jemez Pueblo, Pecos, and the surrounding communities each year.
Snow covers a landscape with trees and mesas.
Winter at Pecos can have snow blanketing the pass and local area.

Activities

  • Arts and Culture
  • Cultural Demonstrations
  • Fishing
  • Fly Fishing
  • Food
  • Picnicking
  • Guided Tours
  • Self-Guided Tours - Walking
  • Hiking
  • Front-Country Hiking
  • Junior Ranger Program
  • Museum Exhibits
  • Shopping
  • Bookstore and Park Store