Terrero
| The Terrero campground is right on the banks of the Pecos river. People who fish will appreciate this. |
| Campground data | Waypoints | Maps | Getting to the campground | About the campground | Plants around the campground | Comments |
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| Date: | 2001-09-22 |
| Cleanliness: | 8. |
| Waypoint | Type | Description |
| TRROCG | Campground | Terrero Campground |
| Map name | Cartographer | Year | Scale | Topo map? | Online access | Notes |
| Guide to Indian Country of Arizona Colorado New Mexico Utah | Automobile Club of Southern California | 1998 | 1:0 | N | from Amazon (purchase) | Good overview road map for northwest NM. No scale is given on the map. The corner coordinates are approximate. |
| Pecos Wilderness, Santa Fe and Carson National Forests | US Forest Service | 2004 | 1:54000 | Y | from Amazon (purchase) | |
| Santa Fe | BLM | 1996 | 1:100000 | Y | from Amazon (purchase) | |
| Santa Fe | USGS | 1954 | 1:250000 | Y | from sar.lanl.gov (free) | |
| Santa Fe National Forest | US Forest Service | 2004 | 1:126720 | N | from Amazon (purchase) | East half |
| Wildernesses of New Mexico | US Forest Service | 1981 | 1:1000000 | N | No online copies. | Base map with national forests, wilderness areas and highways. |
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From the town of Pecos, NM, take New Mexico 63 north. Right before you would cross the river, there is a sign pointing to the Holy Ghost campground. Take this road, and almost immediately, there is a turn-off to the right which leads to the campground. Across the river is the Terrero General Store which offers showers for $5.00. Note that the road from Pecos is narrow and it has many sharp turns. Expect to take at least half an hour to get from Pecos to the campground. |  |
 | To the left, you can see an average campsite. Between the truck and
the cliff/hillside in the distance is the Rio Pecos. As you can see, it
is quite close.
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To the right you can see the Rio Pecos as it passes near the campground.
This picture shows the river closer to the entrance to the campground
than the other pictures (which do not really show the river at all).
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 | To the left is an overview of much of the campground. I took this
picture from near the gated cave. Our truck is parked to the right,
just outside of the frame.
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On Sun Jan 11 07:18:02 2004 james alexander from Somewhere said:
It was nice when the cave wasn't gated. You could explore for hours.
On Mon Feb 2 14:52:27 2009 Sarah from Rio Rancho, NM said:We love the spot right after the 2nd bridge. Great access to the water. We watched several idiots on ATV's (no helmets) flip over a tough spot even for cars to go up. We went in Aug 08 and it was beautiful during the day, then the rain clouds would roll thru. It did hail like crazy for about 2 hours straight, then it was so cold. The people around where very nice. Alot of people give good fishing tips! The rangers where very friendly. We will be back there again this year! On Thu Jan 26 09:55:44 2017 Steve from Little Rock, AR said:
The entire campground is in the open, though there are trees next to the Pecos River on the north end of the campground. A bit unclean, unkept in August 2015 so we decided to move on to Mora, which has many trees (though there was a much more substantial restroom facility here). This is a great campground for skygazing, with lots of open sky. Just across the river from Terrero General Store, which has food and camping and fishing supplies.