TRES RITOS

NAME: TRES RITOS COUNTY: TAOS ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: COLD WINTERS BEST TIME TO VISIT: ANY TIME

COMMENTS: TRES RITOS. Post office 1916/1927; 1937/1940. REMAINS: inquire locally

TRES RITOS. Span. 'three little rivers'. Established as a lumber camp aboutr 1900. Lies in a pocket in Sangre de Cristo Mts. between U. S. Hill and Holman Hill on NM 3, 27 mi S of Taos. Named for the junction of three streams, the Rio la Junta, Agua Piedra Creek, and the Rio Pueblo. MAIL TO PENASCO. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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