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Pecos River (Pecos)

Live conditions for Pecos River (Pecos): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

702cfs→ highnot now
Too high to wade safely at 702 cfs · -4.4% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage3.97 ft
Engine callOFF 714 cfs outside wade band 50–150
Gauge read 8:00 AM CDT · USGS 08378500. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Pecos River (Pecos) is a freestone river in New Mexico, fished for trout — rainbow, brown, cutthroat. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.
troutrainbow troutbrown troutcutthroat trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

  • Cowles Day Use / Cowles Pondswalk in
  • North Mora Day Use Areawalk in
  • Holy Ghost Campgroundwalk in
  • South Mora Day Use Areawalk in
  • Willow Creek Fishing Areawalk in
  • Bert Clancy / Terrero Fishing Areawalk in
  • Windy Bridge Picnic Sitebridge
  • Dalton Fishing Area (Lower Dalton Picnic Site)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.