NPS Santa Fe National Historic Trail

The Santa Fe Trail Museum, located in the same block as the other museum. This is where the Bacas' workers lived and is filled with local artifacts. Exhibits feature life and times from trail days through 1920, people and episodes from the Santa Fe Trail period and Trinidad's heyday as a commercial cattle ranching and coal mining center.

Museum exhibit of a fringed buckskin coat on display with a frame painted portrait in the background. — See Kit Carson's fringed buckskin coat on display. This historic adobe building served as living quarters for employees and here you will find historic photographs, family heirlooms, commercial goods, and other local artifacts. Take part in the museum activities each June during Santa Fe Trail Days.

A wall of displays, text, and photos in the background and a small display case with 19th century artifacts. — Additional museum exhibits

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134. Trinidad History Museum – Museum