About this city
Watrous is a historic, quiet valley town positioned flatly at the scenic confluence where the Mora and Sapello rivers merge within the high plains of northeastern New Mexico. Originally settled heavily in the 1840s by Samuel Watrous as a vital frontier ranching empire, the town became a critical, bustling junction along the historic Santa Fe Trail. Watrous expertly preserves its grand nineteenth-century pioneer trade identity, serving as the official immediate geographic gateway to one of the largest and most strategically vital frontier military ruins in the American West.
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Suggested stay: 1 day
Tour the sprawling 19th-century adobe ruins and historic hospital officer quarters at Fort Union National Monument, photograph the sweeping Santa Fe Trail wagon ruts, and fish along the Mora River.
