Pecos National Historical Park


Pecos is a cultural crossroads through which hunters and gatherers, traders, conquerors and explorers, immigrants, soldiers, ranchers and tourists passed. Walk the trails and imagine Pecos through the centuries. Explore sites where cultural demonstrations and traditional practices continue today - a living legacy of the people who passed this way. Welcome to Pecos, where past is present.

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.

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

  • Architecture and Building
  • Archeology
  • Ruins
  • Arts
  • Colonization and Settlement
  • Commerce
  • Trade
  • Explorers and Expeditions
  • Farming and Agriculture
  • Ranches
  • Hispanic American Heritage
  • Latino American Heritage
  • Migrations
  • Military
  • Indigenous and Native Warrior
  • Battlefields
  • Monuments and Memorials
  • Native American Heritage
  • Religion and Spirituality
  • Missions
  • Transportation
  • Roads, Routes and Highways
  • Wars and Conflicts
  • Tribal Conflicts
  • Colonial/European Contact Conflicts
  • Mexican War
  • Civil War
  • Westward Expansion
  • Animals
  • Birds
  • Elk
  • Fish
  • Geology
  • Night Sky
  • Astronomy
  • Rock Landscapes and Features

Mission Church and Kiva

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Clouds gather on a summer day at the mission church

Mission from front

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.

Civil War Encampment

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,

Feast Day at Pecos Pueblo

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.

Winter at Pecos

Snow covers a landscape with trees and mesas.

Winter at Pecos can have snow blanketing the pass and local area.