Description:  Ghost Ranch was given by Arthur and Pheobe Pack to the Presbyterian Church in 1955. The 21,000 acres that comprise Ghost Ranch were part a land grant to Pedro Martin Serrano from the King of Spain in 1766. The grant was called Piedra Lumbre (shining rock). The name "Ghost Ranch", or the local name Rancho de los Brujos, was derived from the many tales of ghosts and legends of hangings in the Ranch's history.

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Programming: Ghost Ranch is a year-round education and mission center of the Presbyterian Church for people of diverse faiths, racial, and cultural origins. The beautiful high desert landscape combines with the programs to give participants an experience of rest, re-creation, and renewal. Call (505) 685-4333

Summer 2001 Ghost Ranch began offering a new array of courses in outdoor adventure including low and high ropes, kayaking, horseback riding, and hiking.

Contact Information: 1.877.804.4678 or 1.505.685.4333, fax 1.505.685.4519
Ghost Ranch HC77, Box 11 Abiquiu, New Mexico 87510 USA


Ghost Ranch Staff at Low Ropes Challenge Course, Spring 2001

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Name: (Ranch de los Brujos) When Arthur Newton Pack, founder of the conference center. arrived in 1933, his guid to the property told him it had been called Ranch de los Brujos, “ranch of the witches,’’ because it was supposed to have been haunted by evil spirits. “The name came to be freely translated as Ghost Ranch,’’ said Pack.

The Place Names of New Mexico, Robert Julyan, © 1996, 1998 by the University of New Mexico Press

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