Pecos National Park

  • The Pecos National Park is located in the Pecos watershed and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Nueva Tierra.(www.nps.gov/peco/index.htm)
  • There is evidence of Clovis Culture hunters in the Pecos Valley(10,000-5,500 BCE)and early Puebloan farmers(1100-1838 AD)(after Paul R. Secord, Images of America, Pecos, 2014). Comanches and Apaches are known to have traded and fought the Puebloans.
  • The Puebloan culture built with natural sustainable methods established long ago in the Pecos/Glorieta region.


Glorieta Mountain Biking

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Santa Fe National Forest

  • Located less than 0.5 miles north of Nueva Tierra is the boundary of the Santa Fe National Forest and Pecos Wilderness. Hiking, camping and fishing are allowed with a permit.
  • The Pecos Wilderness is a protected wilderness area within the Santa Fe National Forest and Carson National Forest. The Pecos Wilderness lies within the Camino Real Ranger District of the Carson National Forest, and the Pecos Ranger District and Espanola Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest. The Pecos Wilderness includes the southernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in the sub-range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of north central New Mexico. The Wilderness boasts one of the highest concentrations of peaks exceeding 12,000 feet (3,700 m) in elevation in New Mexico, including Santa Fe Baldy, 12,622 feet (3,847 m), the highest point in Santa Fe County, and South Truchas Peak, 13,102 feet (3,993 m), the second highest peak in the state.

Pecos River Fly Fishing

  • Located less than 1 miles East of Nueva Tierra is the Pecos River one of the top fly fishing areas of the state.
  • New Mexico's Pecos River begins on the western
    slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It's a 926
    mile long tributary of the Rio Grande River. Just over
    twenty miles of the Pecos River, from the headwaters to Tererro, is designated as a National Wild and Scenic
    River. Fly fishing the Pecos River requires some hiking
    to get to the best water.(    http://www.perfectflystore.com/wpecosr.html)
  • Catch and Keep “Non-Native” Species to include, Brown Trout, Brook Trout and Rainbow Trout.
    Anglers are allowed to keep a total of 5 fish per day, total of 5 fish in their possession per day.
    Catch-and-release of all “Native Species of Fish”
    ALL native fish species caught must be immediately returned to the water.
  • All anglers must possess a valid New Mexico Department of Game and Fish fishing license with Habitat Management and Access validations.

Battle of Glorieta Pass

  • Early in 1862, a military operation dubbed the New Mexico Campaign sent a Confederate army into northern New Mexico Territory in an attempt to seize control of the Southwest. Sustained operations would open a new theater of the war, and success would gain important resources for the Confederacy (including the Colorado goldfields and the ports and goldfields of California). A key Confederate objective was to capture Fort Union, a Union stronghold on the Santa Fe Trail in northern New Mexico. Taking Fort Union would compel Union forces to abandon northern New Mexico, retreat into Colorado Territory, and cede control of the High Plains. To get at Fort Union, the Confederates would have to advance eastward and northward along the Santa Fe Trail and overcome any resistance they met.
  • The ambitious New Mexico Campaign came to nothing when Union troops turned the Confederates back near Glorieta Pass, a chokepoint on the Santa Fe Trail at the southern tip of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe. Because it marked the high point of Confederate military operations in the region, many historians have dubbed the Battle of Glorieta “the Gettysburg of the West.”
  • “It shows the very real consequence of war,” said Barbour, of the state Office of Archaeological Studies, during a presentation on the uncovered remains of soldiers killed during the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass in 1862. The men died in pain and for nothing, he said during his talk at the New Mexico History Museum, titled, “Having Fought and Died Together: Examining the Battle of Glorieta Pass Confederate Mass Grave.”By Robert Nott, The New Mexican, 1/17/2016
Montezuma Hot Springs

  • 51 miles from Nueva Tierra to the east approximately 50 minutes is the Montezuma Hot Springs
  • Six miles northwest of Las Vegas, New Mexico the warm, healing, mineral-charged pools of Montezuma Hot Springs are one of Mother Nature’s myriad blessings found in northern New Mexico.(https://www.visitlasvegasnm.com/montezuma-hot-springs)
  • "Over the years a rag tag collection of pools have been built, each with a distinct personality. Ranging from the beloved “Lobster Pot” – a scalding hot circular stone pool of 120 degrees – to an earth-lined large natural pool of 102.7 degrees called “Africa” because of its recognizable shape. All pools are free of charge and open from dawn to dusk. Patrolled by the United World College, the site remains pristine, natural, calm." August 27, 2012 by Jeane George Weigel
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