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.

Mission Church and Kiva

Clouds gather on a summer day at the mission church

Church and preservation workers in distance, kiva in foreground.jpg (943 kb)

Mission from front

As the largest remaining building from the 1700s, the Mission Church draws in folks on the Ancestral Sites Trail every day.

An adobe building under cloudy skies.

Civil War Encampment

Civil War Encampment reenactors ready a black powder cannon demonstration in front of Glorieta Mesa,

Reenactors prepare a cannon under a mesa and blue skies.

Feast Day at Pecos Pueblo

The Feast Day of Pecos Pueblo draws in hundreds from Jemez Pueblo, Pecos, and the surrounding communities each year.

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

Winter at Pecos

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

Snow covers a landscape with trees and mesas.