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New Mexico Monuments & Trails
State and national monuments can be found across New Mexico, from the Four Corners to the Boot Heel. Below are links to New Mexico monuments.
Aztec Ruins National Monument - The Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwest New Mexico preserves structures and artifacts of Ancestral Pueblo people from the 1100s through 1200s.
Bandelier National Monument - Head into the extensive back country in north-central New Mexico to hike, camp, and explore at leisure the lands and dwellings once occupied by the ancestors of present-day Pueblo Indians.
Capulin Volcano National Monument - Mammoths, giant bison, and short-faced bears traversed this territory in what is now northeast New Mexico around the time the volcano was formed.
Coronado State Monument - Where Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, with 300 soldiers and 800 Indian allies from New Spain, entered the central Rio Grande valley while looking for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail - El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail ran from northeast New Mexico to Mexico City. It is a part of the United States National Trails system.
El Malpais National Monument - El Malpais—the Badlands—in northwest New Mexico have a diverse volcanology of lava flows and associated features dating from 115,000 to 2,000 years old.
El Morro National Monument - A reliable waterhole hidden at its base made El Morro (or Inscription Rock) a popular campsite in western New Mexico. Beginning in the late 1500s, Spanish, and later, Americans passed by El Morro.
Fort Selden State Monument - Fort Selden was established by United States Government in 1865, in an effort to bring peace to the south-central region of present day New Mexico. Several units of Buffalo Soldiers were stationed here.
Fort Union National Monument - As a key stopover point for travelers along the Old Santa Fe Trail, Fort Union in northeastern New Mexico was witness to countless expeditions, Indian raids and commercial gatherings during its short but storied existence.
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument - Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in southwestern New Mexico offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of the people of the Mogollón culture who lived in the Gila Wilderness from the 1280s through the early 1300s.
Jemez State Monument - Six hundred years ago, the Jemez people built villages in the narrow mountain valley and on the tops of the steep, sculptured mesas, naming one valley village "Giusewa" for the many hot springs in the area.
Lincoln State Monument - This frequently visited state monument in southeast New Mexico is part of a community that remains much as it did in the 1870s and 1880s.
Old Spanish National Historic Trail - The Old Spanish Trail is a historic trade route which connected the northern New Mexican settlement of Santa Fe with that of Los Angeles in California.
Petroglyph National Monument - The Petroglyph National Monument west of Albuquerque in central New Mexico protects a variety of cultural and natural resources including five volcanic cones, hundreds of archeological sites and an estimated 25,000 images carved by Native Americans and early Spanish settlers.
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument - Once, thriving American Indian trade communities of Tiwa- and Tompiro-speaking Puebloans inhabited this remote frontier area of central New Mexico. Early in the 17th-century, Spanish Franciscans found the area ripe for their missionary efforts.
Santa Fe National Historic Trail - The Santa Fe Trail was a historic 19th century transportation route across southwestern North America, connecting Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
White Sands National Monument - Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert and have created the world's largest gypsum dune field, located in southwest New Mexico.
