Pecos Ruins, New Mexico
September 4th, 2005 by leafworksPueblo Ruins National Historical Park
Pueblo, New Mexico
(505) 757-6414×1
www.nps.gov/peco
Pecos National Historical Park
P. O. Box 418
Pecos, NM 87552
This awesome National Historical Park preserves 12,000 years of North and Central American History with its famous “Ruins” site and museum that saves the ancient Pueblo of Pecos, two Spanish Colonial Missions, Santa Fe Trail sites, 20th century ranch history of Forked Lightning Ranch, and the site of the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass. The site includes a wonderful visitor center with exhibits, dioramas, gift shop, and a historical film, and a self-guiding trail through the Pueblo and ruins. If passing through on I-25, this is a must-see rest stop. For a affordable $3 you get to visit this site as well as another just down the highway. Rated: 4 stars out of 5 possible.
“Pecos Pueblo is congregated on a high and narrow hill … It has the greatest and best buildings of these provinces and is mostly thickly settled … it is enclosed and protected by a wall … and by tiers of walkways which look out on the countryside. ” ~Baltazar de Obregon, 1594
