Concho Hills Guest Ranch

Concho Hills Guest Ranch is located in the foothills of New Mexico’s San Mateo Mountains, overlooking the San Augistin plains.  The plains are the basin of an ancient lake that existed from 26,000 years ago until about 5000 years ago. Occupied for over 13,000 years, you can stand in caves occupied by Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago.  Their artifacts still abound here. This area is where the Spanish Conquistadors explored and Spanish settlers named the nearby village, Magdalena.  Besides finding gold and silver, they found an area suitable to raise cattle and sheep. Vacation where the Wild West existed!  Western icons like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Elfego Baca, Captain Jack Crawford, and the Apache Kid actually lived, worked, or rode here! Come ride where the Apache wars were fought.  Victorio, Nana, and Cochise lived and visited here.  See the only place where Geronimo was captured and where the famous Buffalo Soldiers served. The Magdalena Mining district was here where minerals such as gold, silver, zinc, lead, and smithsonite was found and mined.  Visit the sites of old mining towns like Kelly or nearby Chloride. Join us in the heart of New Mexico cattle country and the Magdalena Stock Driveway.