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Pueblo Bonito is the largest great house in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Examination of pack rat middens revealed that at the time that Pueblo Bonito was built, Chaco Canyon and the surrounding areas were wooded by trees such as ponderosa pines. Evidence of such trees can be seen within the structure of Pueblo Bonito, such as the first-floor ...
The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States. [2]
Una Vida is an archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.According to tree rings surrounding the site, its construction began around 800 AD, at the same time as Pueblo Bonito, [1] and it is one of the three earliest Chacoan Ancestral Puebloan great houses.
Guadalupe Outlier is an Ancestral Puebloan site in Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, United States.The site is described by author Stephen H. Lekson as "sitting atop the second-most spectacular setting of any outlier, a narrow high mesa overlooking the Rio Puerco (Rio Grande tributary), about 100 kilometres (62 mi) from Chaco". [1]
Ancestral Puebloan New Mexico Ruins Site map of Halfway House Outlier, with Great North Road: Hawikuh: Zuni Zuni: Ruins located on the Zuni Indian Reservation in the Zuni-Cibola Complex and that is listed as a National Historic Landmark. Hogback Outlier: Mountainair: 50 miles northwest of Chaco Culture National Historical Park
The Coronado Historic Site was the first state archaeological site to open to the public. It was dedicated on May 29, 1940, as part of the Cuarto Centenario commemoration [4] (400th Anniversary) of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's entry into New Mexico. [5] James F. Zimmerman was its first president. [6]
The statue was the second commissioned by the state of New Mexico for National Statuary Hall; it was the 100th and last to be added to the collection, which represents the Senate. It was created by Cliff Fragua, a Puebloan from Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. It is the only statue in the collection to be created by a Native American. [6]
New Mexico: $25 per-vehicle fees currently waived White Sands National Park: New Mexico: $25 per-vehicle Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site: New York: $20 per-person 2-day pass; passes required only for the house and presidential library. Top Cottage requires a separate $10 fee per-person. Sagamore Hill National Historic Site