• Two-wheeled carretas carried goods up El Camino from Mexico City in 1598; walking the trail in the Jornada del Muerto, a scorching 90-mile stretch of El Camino wherein colonists had to leave the cool Rio Grande to continue their journey north

    El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

    National Historic Trail NM,TX

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Ysleta Mission

 
Front of Mission Ysleta
Ysleta Mission Church, 131 South Zaragoza Road, El Paso, Texas
NPS
 

Ysleta Mission, the oldest mission (by two days) in the present day State of Texas, owes its heritage to Pueblo traditions, Franciscan Mission, and Spanish Colonial life in Northern New Mexico.

Places To Go gives you a listing of sites along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro NHT to visit. The Passport page let's you know which locations are involved in the NPS Passport Program.

Did You Know?

Traces of a dirt road, El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, stretch across a southern New Mexico desert landscape

The dreaded Jornada del Muerto is a 90-mile stretch of almost waterless desert on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro in present-day New Mexico. In the 1600 and 1700s, Spanish trade and supply caravans traveling the road between Mexico City and Santa Fe would move through this section at night.