Pinos Altos is a census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. The community was a mining town, formed in 1860 gone the discovery of gold in the approachable Pinos Altos Mountains. The town site is located more or less five to ten miles north of the gift day Silver City. Although once abandoned, the town is now a place for summer homes and caters to tourists. Its population was 198 as of the 2010 census.

Originally named Birchville, after prospector and former outlaw, Robert H. Birch, one of three people who found the first gold, it sophisticated took the Spanish name Pinos Altos, meaning tall pines, because there were tall trees growing in the area. These were clip down as the town grew to a population of roughly 9,000 during the 1880s and 1890s past slowly being without help during the to the fore 1900s. Today, many of the indigenous buildings remain.

From the discovery of gold in 1860 until late 1861, miners were harassed by Apache Indians counter to American and Mexican settlers occupying their lands. On September 27, 1861, it was the site of the Battle of Pinos Altos amid the Arizona Guards of Pinos Altos, a Confederate Arizona Territorial militia company, and Apache warriors led by Mangas Coloradas and Cochise. This battle did not fade away the war between settlers and Native Americans, which continued for several years, with neither side particularly acceptable to look the dispute fixed peacefully. Even in the spread of a concurrence was eventually negotiated with the settlers and Indians, a settler hosting a dinner to celebrate the signing opened flame on 60 unarmed Indians, killing and injuring many of those assembled. Indian bitterness continued until the military built permanent forts in the area, most significant of which was Fort Bayard, established a few miles to the southeast in 1866.

Senator George Hearst invested in several Pinos Altos mines, including the Mina Grande and the Pacific Mine. He built a stamp mill in Pinos Altos in 1889, and incorporated the Silver City, Pinos Altos and Mogollon Railroad to connect these properties to his Silver City smelter. Comanche Mining and Smelting Company completed the 2-foot narrow gauge railroad in 1906; but the railroad closed taking into consideration the price of copper plunged the as soon as year.