Pecos Conference
The Annual
Established 1927
2025
Conference Details
The 2025 Pecos Conference is hosted by
The 2025 Pecos Conference will be held at the same location as in 2014: the Blue Mountain Boy Scout Camp on the Manti-La Sal National Forest, about 12 road miles north of Blanding, Utah!
This year's conference will run from Thursday, August 7th through Sunday, August 10th – starting off with an opening social / registration packet pickup at Edge of the Cedars Museum State Park in Blanding.
Papers, posters and panel presentations on the 8th and 9th, dinner and dancing dancing Saturday night (of course) and a full slate of tours on Sunday the 10th. Come camp with us in the Ponderosa Pines in this beautiful location at the base of the Abajo Mountains!
This location is just inside Bears Ears National Monument (BENM), and the theme of this year's conference will be highlighting BENM and the adjacent "Lands Between" – a highly significant, publicly owned cultural landscape in its own right located between BENM and Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.
Conference Dates
August 7-10, 2025
Conference Location
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To get to the conference site, get yourself to 100 East Main Street (aka, Hwy 191) in Blanding, then reset your odometer. Go exactly 11.8 miles on 100 East, which turns into the Blue Mountain Road, and you will come to the Day Parking area on your left. Another entrance into the conference spot will be on your left a few hundred meters before that.
On-Site Camping Info
Tent and RV camping will be available at the conference site at no additional fee.
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For preservation/conservation reasons, vehicles will not be allowed to drive far off of the tent camping access roads. Campers will need to carry their gear if they wish to camp away from the two-track roads. Since it will be monsoon season, campers are advised to attend in high clearance or 4WD vehicles (as the roads may be muddy).
2025 Board Candidate Statements
2025 Final Schedule
2025 Abstracts
Thursday, August 7, 2025
ON-SITE CAMPING OPENS
1:00 pm​
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Tent and RV Campers may arrive and begin selecting sites.
REGISTRATION
5:00 to 7:00 pm​​
THURSDAY NIGHT RECEPTION
5:00 to 7:00 pm​
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Will be held at Edge of the Cedars Museum State Park in Blanding, Utah. Light snacks will be provided.
Friday, August 8, 2025
TENTS OPEN​
8:30 am - 5:00 pm​
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Presentations, Posters, Silent Auction, and Vendor Tents Open.
AFFINITY GROUPS​
During Lunch Break
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LGBTQ, Indigenous, and other affinity group meetups.
SPECIAL PANEL PRESENTATION
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Presentation Tent​​
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STAR PARTY (STAY TUNED)​​
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Saturday, August 9, 2025
TENTS OPEN
8:30 am - 5:00 pm​
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Presentations, Posters, Silent Auction, and Vendor Tents Open.
BUSINESS MEETING
11:00 am​​
HAPPY HOUR
5:00 pm​
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SATURDAY NIGHT DINNER
5:30 pm​​
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SATURDAY NIGHT BAND
7:30 pm
(Stay Tuned!)
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The Mesa Verde B/w olla (courtesy of Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum) is from a large Ancestral Pueblo site in Montezuma Canyon, southeastern Utah.
Sunday, August 10, 2025
FIELD TRIPS
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Field trip sign-up will be at the conference Registration table. A list of field trips will be posted prior to the conference.​
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Silent Auction
One Archaeologists' Junk,
Another Archaeologists' Treasure​
Support our event and the Cordell Powers Scholarship by donating your new and pre-cherished treasures for an always exciting silent auction, which takes place during the event. The most popular auction items include art, mineral specimens, jewelry, pottery, textiles, gift certificates, books, y mas.
The silent auction is a significant source of revenue for the conference, and we very much appreciate your donations!
Souvenirs
Hats, Shirts, and Water Bottles​​
Pre-order when you register, and pick up your item(s) when you arrive at the Conference! Or, you can make an order at the conference to be shipped to you after. Water bottles can also be bought at the conference.
Background photo courtesy of Tim Peterson