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Chaco Culture National Historical Park

National preserve, northwestern New Mexico, U.S. Established as a national monument in 1907, it was redesignated and renamed in 1980. Occupying 53 sq mi (137 sq km), it contains 13 major pre-Columbian ruins and more than 300 smaller archaeological sites representing Pueblo cultures. Pueblo Bonito, built in the 10th century, is the largest Pueblo excavated site; it contained some 800 rooms.

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Address: PO Box 280
Nageezi, NM 87037
Phone: 505-786-7014;
Fax: 505-786-7061;
Web: www.nps.gov/chcu/
Size: 33,960 acres.
Established: Proclaimed Chaco Canyon National Monument on March 11, 1907; redesignated and renamed on December 19, 1980. Designated a World Heritage Site on December 8, 1987.
Location: In northwestern New Mexico. The recommended access route to the park is from the north via Hwy. 44/550. Turn off Hwy. 44/550 at CR 7900 (3 miles southeast of Nageezi) and go 21 miles to the park boundary (5 miles of paved road on CR 7900 and 16 miles of dirt road on CR 7950/7985).
Facilities: Campgrounds (é), picnic area, rest rooms (é), bicycle trail, visitor center (é), museum/exhibit, self-guided tour/trail. Entrance fee required.
Activities: Camping, hiking, bicycling, ranger-led walks.
Special Features: The canyon contains 13 major prehistoric sites and hundreds of smaller ones, built by the Ancestral Puebloan People during the 9th through 12th centuries. The Chaco Museum collection contains approximately one million artifacts from more than 120 sites in Chaco Canyon and the surrounding region.

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Chaco Culture National Historical Park Designated: Monument, 1907; re-designated a national historical park in 1980 Location: Northwestern New Mexico; the recommended access route to the park is from the north, via U.

A LOOK AT NEW MEXICO NATIONAL PARKS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

From the builders of celestial calendars at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico to the builders of rockets at Canaveral National Seashore in Florida, the mission of our national parks could not be complete without dark night skies to help tell their stories.

The sky's the limit: light pollution is making the night sky ... by Gent, Robert / Parks & Recreation

2, includes photography field trips to Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, an old prison, and ghost towns; workshops in black-and-white printing, Photoshop, and figure, wedding, and nude photography; a view-camera conference; and the annual Alternative Photography International Symposium.

MOON WALKS IN NEW MEXICO by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)