New Mexico Parks and Recreation Areas with National Historic Trail

In 1838, the United States government forcibly removed more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (today known as Oklahoma). The impact to the Cherokee was devastating. Hundreds of Cherokee died during their trip west, and thousands more perished from the consequences of relocation. This tragic chapter in American and Cherokee history became known as the Trail of Tears, and culminated the implementation of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which mandated the removal of all American Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West. read more...

Phone: (505) 988-6888   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Santa Fe   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Trail   Activities: Auto Touring, Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

There was money to be made in transporting New Mexico serapes and other woolen goods to Los Angeles, and in wrangling California-bred horses and mules back to Santa Fe. But a viable overland route across the remote deserts and mountains of Mexicos far northern frontier had to be found. read more...

Phone: (505) 988-6888   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Santa Fe   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Trail   Activities: Biking / Bicycling   Details Provided By: Old Spanish National Historic Trail

Between 1821 and 1880, the Santa Fe Trail was primarily a commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1821 until 1846, it was an international commercial highway used by Mexican and American traders. In 1846, the Mexican-American War began. The Army of the West followed the Santa Fe Trail to invade New Mexico. When the Treaty of Guadalupe ended the war in 1848, the Santa Fe Trail became a national road connecting the United States to the new southwest territories. Commercial freighting along the trail continued, including considerable military freight hauling to supply the southwestern forts. The trail was also used by stagecoach lines, thousands of gold seekers heading to the California and Colorado gold fields, adventurers, fur trappers, and emigrants. In 1880 the railroad reached Santa Fe and the trail faded into history. read more...

Phone: (505) 988-6888   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Santa Fe   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Trail   Activities: Hiking, Auto Touring, Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Santa Fe National Historic Trail

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is recognized throughout the United States of America and Los Estados Unidos de Mexico as a timeless route of trade and cultural exchange and interaction among Spaniards and other Europeans, American Indians, Mexicans, and Americans, which shaped individual lives and communities and affected settlement and development in the greater Southwest. Recognition of this route as an international historic trail will commemorate a shared cultural heritage and contribute in a meaningful way to eliminating cultural barriers and enriching the lives of people along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. read more...

Phone: 505-988-6888   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Santa Fe   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Trail   Activities: Auto Touring, Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro