Santa Fe and Pecos Pueblo NP

Leaving Whites City, we headed north near Santa Fe. We stayed at the Cochiti Lake Campground, a Core of Engineers (COE) campground on the Cochiti Reservation. Beautiful spot overlooking the lake. 

We hiked a trail along the dam that the COE created as flood control for the Rio Grande. 

Then headed for Sante Fe to walk around the city window shopping at the beautiful SW colors of jewelry and pottery. 

We stopped at Burrito Alley for a beer and met some ladies from Wisconsin who told us about Pecos Pueblo National Park. So after I had my fill of all the beautiful turquoise jewelry and pottery, we headed a little more north to see what this National Park had to offer. 

We had not heard of this one. We were very pleasantly surprised to find a trail that wound around where the Pecos people had lived and prospered for many years. As you can see, dogs were allowed to walk with us so they got a hike and we learned more history. 

Sunset tonight was pretty.