Pecos National Historical Park

Plan Your Visit NPS.gov

Reenactors prepare a cannon under a mesa and blue skies.

A line of people walk past adobe bricks, trees, and the road.

Snow covers a landscape with trees and mesas.

Park Alerts (2)

Visitor Center Parking Lot Paving and Repair - Late June and Early July: Repaving and repair of the visitor center parking lot will take place in late June and early July, weather permitting. Visitors traveling to the park during this time can expect impacts and delays. Te...

Ride Share Services - pickup limited: Taxi and ride-share services are often not available in Pecos. Even if services like Uber and Lyft will bring you here, it can be very difficult to secure a ride out. Please ensure you have a departur...

About 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.

Things To Do

90-150 Minutes

Hiking Glorieta Pass Battlefield

Hiking the 2.25-mile Glorieta Pass Battlefield Trail will lead you through part of New Mexico's Civil War history. The trail leads to sites where fighting occurred in March 1862.

40-90 Minutes

Hiking the Ancestral Sites Trail

This trail gives you a glimpse into the past as you pass by the ancestral sites of the Pecos Pueblo and the mission church. You will also enjoy beautiful vistas of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and Glorieta Mesa as you venture around the trail.

90-150 Minutes

Walking the South Pasture Loop

Walking the South Pasture Loop Trail offers visitors the chance to enjoy a quieter side of the park.

Fishing at Pecos NHP

Fishing along the Pecos gives visitors an opportunity to experience the park in a special way.

Available 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

Weather

Pecos National Historical Park is located at nearly 7,000 feet in altitude in the high desert region of Northern New Mexico. Please know your limits at this high desert altitude. We recommend that you wear clothing appropriate to the season, bring plenty of water, stop for a snack or lunch at one of the picnic tables, wear comfortable shoes, and put on plenty of sunscreen.

Specific daily Pecos weather information may be accessed at this link: http://www.nps.gov/peco/planyourvisit/weather.

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Getting There

Pecos National Historical Park is 25 miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico off of Interstate 25. Visitors travelling north on I-25: take exit 299 on to HWY 50 to Pecos village and south two miles on State Road 63. Those travelling south on I-25: take exit 307 and proceed four miles north to the Park on State Road 63.

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