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New Mexico's scenic historic markers, on the maps of their eras

New Mexico has marked its roadsides since 1935, one of the oldest programs of its kind in the country, and the Historic Preservation Division publishes the marker texts in a spreadsheet of its own. Three hundred and ninety-eight of those markers now have permanent pages at TreeAlive, each placing the Division's text, word for word, on georeferenced maps from the eras it describes. Most sit on the Division's own coordinate; where its spreadsheet gives only a highway and a mile marker, or describes the spot in words, the pin is ours, resolved on the state's milepost and road data and marked approximate. The Division says plainly that its list may be out of date and that it does not know where every marker now stands, and these pages say so too: a marker listed here may have moved or may no longer stand.

398Marker pages
82,000+Historical map sheets
Official Scenic Historic Markers program, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Department of Cultural AffairsCredited on every page

Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip; many dots hold several markers each; click a busy spot to zoom in. Prefer a list? Browse all 398 markers by county.

Featured markers

Trinity Site
1945
See it on a period map →
Pancho Villa’s Raid and Pancho Villa State Park
1916
See it on a period map →
Las Vegas
1846–1893
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Pueblo of Zuni
1699
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What a New Mexico family sees

TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in New Mexico, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:

Las Vegas · under a mile from where the family lived in the 1880s · what this marker records spans 1846 to 1893, overlapping the family's years here

When a marker stands near a place in your own tree, you have a personal reason to go see it. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a New Mexico family sees New Mexico’s).

QR-ready, from day one

Every marker page has print-ready QR artwork. A scan at the sign opens the marker's page on the period map, no app to install. TreeAlive does no printing or installation.

Marker page links are permanent: identifiers are never reassigned, so a code printed today resolves for good.

QR code opening the Trinity Site marker page Scan: the Trinity Site marker page

Find a marker

Browsing all 398 markers by county.

Bernalillo County 10
Catron County 5
Chaves County 9
Cibola County 15
Colfax County 22
Curry County 4
De Baca County 9
Doña Ana County 20
Eddy County 15
Grant County 12
Guadalupe County 8
Harding County 3
Hidalgo County 8
Lea County 8
Lincoln County 18
Los Alamos County 2
Luna County 8
McKinley County 11
Mora County 8
Otero County 17
Quay County 9
Rio Arriba County 25
Roosevelt County 7
San Juan County 11
San Miguel County 10
Sandoval County 25
Santa Fe County 27
Sierra County 6
Socorro County 19
Taos County 22
Torrance County 6
Union County 11
Valencia County 8