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Each of these 10 places provides valuable glimpses into the past. Here are some of the most fascinating ruins in New Mexico: 1. Chaco Culture National Historic Park, near Nageezi. Flickr/ mksfca. Flickr/Lane B. If you only visit one ruins in New Mexico, choose this one. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is vast in scale.
In the late 1200s, people of the agricultural Mogollon (Southern Ancestral Pueblo) culture made it a home. They built rooms, crafted pottery and raised children in the cliff dwellings for one or two generations. By approximately 1300, the Mogollon had moved on, leaving the walls behind.
Explore the monumental structures and breathtaking landscape at Chaco, a thriving regional center for the ancestral Pueblo people from 850 to 1250 CE (Common Era), through guided tours, hiking & biking trails, evening campfire talks, night sky programs, and more.
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.
Taos is the best preserved of the pueblos north of the borders defined by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). A sovereign tribal government governs the Pueblo. It is the only World Heritage Site in the United States cited for the significance of its traditional Native American living culture.
Ruins located on the Galisteo Basin also known as Kua-Kay. 24 great houses with about 1200 rooms total, each about three stories high, surrounded eight plazas, and had at least eight kivas. The inhabitants also constructed an acequia system (irrigation ditch) from a permanent spring below the pueblo to their fields.
Crow Canyon is a historic site about 30 miles southeast of Farmington, New Mexico. Located in DinŠ¹tah, the traditional homeland of the Navajo people, the site contains a variety of Navajo ruins and rock art from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.