El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail - Plan Your Visit (U.S. National Park Service)

A group of people stand outside a historic church in Dona Ana, New Mexico

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People enjoy visiting the Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria Catholic Church in Doña Ana, New Mexico.

While the legislated El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail extends 404 miles in Texas and New Mexico, the historic trail extended all the way to Mexico City. There are museums, historic sites, churches, and original trail segments located all along the length of the trail into Mexico.

To assist with your trip planning, contact information and locations of some trail-related sites and museums can be found at Places to Go in New Mexico and Places to Go in Texas.

The National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management administer this trail jointly. Visit the BLM website dedicated to El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.

The Civil War: 150 Years
The issues at the heart of the Civil War remain relevant today: equality for all Americans, the appropriate reach of the federal government, and the effort to reconcile differing cultural values under a single national flag. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln warned that "A house divided against itself cannot stand," but most Americans were confident that the forces of cohesion in the young republic would continue to triumph over the forces of division. The Civil War culminated 80 years of sectional tensions over economics, cultural values, the extent and reach of the federal government, but, most importantly, the role of slavery in American society. The relevancy of history - and of the Civil War sites of the National Park Service - is to help us better understand the issues, trials, sacrifices, and struggles that past generations endured to bring us where we are today.

Join us in experiencing the past through living history events at El Rancho de las Golondrinas that connects the Civil War to El Camino Real.

El Rancho del las Golondrinas:
http://golondrinas.org/Calendar_of_Events/index.html#May

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