Historic Areas of The NPS in New Mexico
National Historical Parks, some National Monuments, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are nine of these in New Mexico. The National Park Service lists these fourteen together with the NHLs in the state.
They are:
| Landmark name |
Image | Date established | Location | County | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aztec Ruins National Monument | 01923-01-24January 24, 1923 | Aztec | San Juan | Preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico | ||
| Bandelier National Monument | 01916-02-11February 11, 1916 | Santa Fe | Sandoval and Los Alamos | Includes Frijoles Canyon; contains (restored) ruins of dwellings, kivas, rock paintings and petroglyphs | ||
| Chaco Culture National Historical Park | 01907-03-11March 11, 1907 | Farmington | San Juan and McKinley | Densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest | ||
| El Morro National Monument | 01906-12-08December 8, 1906 | Ramah | Cibola | Sandstone promontory with a pool of water at its base; shaded oasis in the western U.S. deser; Zuni Indians call it "A'ts'ina" (Place of writings on the rock); Anglo-Americans called it "Inscription Rock"; travelers left signatures, names, dates, and stories of their treks | ||
| Fort Union National Monument | 01956-04-05April 5, 1956 | Las Vegas, NM | Mora | Preserves the second of three forts constructed on the site beginning in 1851; also ruins of the third; visible network of ruts from the old Santa Fe Trail | ||
| Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument | 01907-11-16November 16, 1907 | Silver City | Catron | Cliff dwellings from the 1280s through the early 1300s | ||
| Pecos National Historical Park | 01965-06-28June 28, 1965 | Santa Fe | Santa Fe and San Miguel | Includes parts of Glorieta Pass Battlefield, an NHL, as well as a mission and other areas. | ||
| Petroglyph National Monument | 01990-06-27June 27, 1990 | Albuquerque | Bernalillo | Variety of cultural and natural resources including five volcanic cones, hundreds of archeological sites and an estimated 25,000 images carved by native peoples and early Spanish settlers | ||
| Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument | 01909-11-01November 1, 1909 | Albuquerque | Torrance and Socorro | Reminders of this earliest contact between Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonials: the ruins of four mission churches and the partially excavated pueblo of Las Humanas |
Read more about this topic: List Of National Historic Landmarks In New Mexico
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