Pecos

Use link below to view AWC Zoom Presentation recorded Feb 10, 2026, and learn all about Paddling the Upper Pecos River in NM. Many years of effort have re-opened this awesome section to paddling.

https://youtu.be/AoXnfv1yLBo

And visit our Adobe Whitewater Club website for more!

https://www.adobewhitewater.org/

From a user on the StreamTeam Message board:

'We tubed the Pecos from 'NM RT 63 bridge access 3' for about 3 miles at 17cfs, late June. It was really too low but very challenging and exciting, with some logs blocking channels. I'm experienced in white water canoeing.

The website descriptions were helpful but inaccurate regarding barbed wire fences. We crossed about 6 fences in this stretch, any of which would have been extremely hazardous to a kayaker at higher levels.'

There is a tall and tight razor wire fence across the river at the Jacobs Fishing Camp 3 miles upstream from Terrero. In spring 2004 a friend and I kayaked from Cowles to Santa Rosa Dam. This was the only section of this spectacular 135-mile run closed. After a streamside confrontation with the caretaker he agreed to drive us around the disputed section. I hear law enforcement is backing the landowner. Is the Pecos a navigable river? How can we get this re-opened?