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Night Sky. The Night Skies are always something to marvel at, and who knows you may even get lucky and see the aurora every few years. Plants. Group of yellow prairie coneflowers with blurred landscape in the background. Backpacking in the Gila Wilderness. A wide shot taken overlooking the Middle Fork of the Gila. Last updated: September 14, 2024.
Experience one of northern New Mexico’s most awe-inspiring cultural attractions featuring cliff & cave dwellings, early Pueblo architecture, an original Harvey House and a stunning panorama of the valley. Spend time with us, and be touched by the spirit of a special place between the earth and sky. Learn More Tours.
This unique area in southwestern New Mexico offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of Indians who lived here over 700 years ago and across a span of time. European American settlers penetrated the mountain wilderness in the early 1870's in search of water and fertile land on which to homestead.
The cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde are some of the most notable and best preserved in North America. Sometime during the late 1190s, after primarily living on the mesa tops for 600 years, many Ancestral Pueblo people began moving into pueblos they built into natural cliff alcoves.
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a U.S. National Monument created to protect Mogollon cliff dwellings in the Gila Wilderness on the headwaters of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico. The 533-acre (2.16 km 2) national monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt through executive proclamation on November 16, 1907. [3]
Allow 1 to 2 hours to complete the trail. Please plan accordingly and check our current Operating Hours to ensure you will have time to explore and discover the dwellings. The Gila and Aldo Leopold Wilderness Areas are perfect opportunities to connect with the natural world.
Occupied by the early Mogollon people in the 1270s, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse into the lives and culture of these early inhabitants.
History, nature, education, and spirituality, the Gila Cliff Dwellings will take you back not only in time but in spirit. The home of the Mogollon people, explore two-thousand years of history, archeology, and human life.
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is in the Mogollon Mountains approximately 44 miles north of Silver City, New Mexico. Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument was established in 1907 and is one of the nation’s oldest monuments.
The monument is a small site of just 553 acres, containing the ruins of interlinked cave dwellings built in five cliff alcoves by the Mogollon peoples between 1275 and 1300 AD, reached today by an easy one mile loop trail along a narrow canyon.