Tres Piedras, New Mexico

Tres Piedras (Spanish: three rocks)[1] is an unincorporated community in Taos County, northern New Mexico, United States, adjacent to Carson National Forest.

Tres Piedras is located approximately 30 miles northwest of Taos, and west of the Rio Grande on U.S. Route 64.

At approximately 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in altitude, it is located within the southern portion of the San Juan Range of the Rocky Mountains.

While the mountains and valleys east of the Rio Grande were colonized by Spanish agriculturalists & pastoralists some 200 years earlier, the Taos Plateau and Tusas Mountains were used by the nomadic peoples: Ute, Comanche, Kiowa and Jicarilla Apache, and so weren't utilized by the pobladores or Hispano colonists until well after the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) and subsequent presence of the U. S. Army.

[2] Homesteaders, sawmills, small scale dry farming and mining activity slowly augmented the population through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.