In Spanish, it is called El Morro — the headland — because that is what is resembles, a headland rising above the desert rather than the ocean waves. In English, it is referred to as inscription rock because travelers throughout time have stopped to leave their mark on the stone. In either case, El [...]

Pecos National Historic Park encompasses 12,000 years of history, from the ancient pueblo of Pecos, to Colonial Missions, Civil War Battles, the Santa Fe Trail sites, and the ranching history of Forked Lightning Ranch.
Pecos National Historic Park was a home and place of trade for the Native American people, where the Pueblo people of the [...]

Taos Pueblo is the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark. The multi-story adobe buildings have been continuously inhabited for over a 1,000 years. Nestled in the foothills of the Taos Mountains, the pueblo has an astonishing view of Wheeler Peak (elevation 13,161), the [...]

High on a cliff above the headwaters of the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico sits a series of stone dwellings tucked cleverly into alcoves. Situated 180 feet above the canyon floor, these 40 precarious perches have level plastered floors, mortared masonry walls, plastered walls, and hearths, and were home to eight or ten families [...]

Called the “Place of Flowing Water” by the descendents of the ancient Puebloans who once lived here, Aztec Ruins is actually misnamed, since the Aztec people never lived here. Early settlers mistakenly thought that people from the Aztec Empire in Mexico created these striking buildings. The ancient Pueblo people who did live here probably had [...]

Frijoles Creek begins on the snowy slopes of Cerro Grande Peak and carves its way down through the Pajarito Plateau for over fourteen miles before entering the winding Rio Grande, and drops about 4,000 feet. Tucked into a deep canyons cut by the creek are the pueblo dwellings of an ancient people built between 1150 [...]

There is a 20-miles stretch of Chaco Wash in the San Juan Basin that was a major center of Puebloan culture between AD 850 and 1250. There are nine major houses and nearly 4,000 other smaller sites that are part of the homeland of Pueblo Indian peoples of New Mexico, the Hopi Indians of Arizona, [...]