Cibola County, New Mexico
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- Acoma Sky City — Historic · Cibola County, NM
Haak'u — Sky City — is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America, a mesa-top pueblo of adobe houses, kivas, and the San Esteban d…
- Acoma–Zuni Trailhead (NM 117) — Historic · Cibola County, NM
East trailhead for the cairned ancestral footpath linking Acoma and Zuni pueblos across El Malpais National Monument lava—about 7.5 miles one-way to the NM-5…
- Armijo Canyon Trailhead — Natural · Cibola County, NM
BLM trailhead on the southern Cebolla Wilderness boundary in El Malpais National Conservation Area, accessing sandstone canyon country, piñon-juniper, and wi…
- Bandera Crater Ice Cave — Geology · Cibola County, NM
Privately operated but long-open public attraction at the edge of El Malpais: hike a trail into the ~10,000-year-old Bandera cinder cone and descend into a l…
- Big Tubes Area — Geology · Cibola County, NM
NPS day-use trailhead on El Malpais National Monument’s Bandera lava flow: cairned figure-8 route (~2 mi) across rough ‘a‘ā to lava bridges, collapsed tubes,…
- Bluewater Lake State Park — Natural · Cibola County, NM
High-country reservoir state park southwest of Prewitt (I-40 Exit 63) in piñon-juniper country between Grants and Gallup. Boating, cold-water fishing, campin…
- Coal Mine Campground (Mount Taylor) — Natural · Cibola County, NM
USFS Cibola National Forest developed campground and picnic area in Lobo Canyon on the north side of Mount Taylor (Tsoodził), a forested high-country natural…
- El Calderon Area — Geology · Cibola County, NM
NPS day-use trailhead on NM 53 in El Malpais National Monument sampling the monument’s volcanic suite: lava-tube entrances (including Bat Cave), the El Calde…
- El Morro National Monument — Historic · Cibola County, NM
Sandstone cuesta and perennial pool where ancestral Puebloans, Spanish travelers, and American soldiers carved names and messages—Inscription Rock—beside the…
- La Ventana Natural Arch — Geology · Cibola County, NM
Largest accessible natural arch in New Mexico, carved in Zuni Sandstone on the east edge of El Malpais National Monument. A short paved parking pullout and 0…
- Lava Falls (El Malpais National Monument) — Geology · Cibola County, NM
Cairned one-mile loop across the young McCartys lava flow in El Malpais National Monument — ropy pāhoehoe, ‘a‘ā, squeeze-ups, pressure ridges, and a short sp…
- Mount Taylor — Geology · Cibola County, NM
Tsoodził — Mount Taylor — is a ~11,300 ft composite stratovolcano and one of the four sacred mountains of the Navajo Nation, rising above the Grants uranium …
- Narrows Rim Trail (South Narrows Picnic Area) — Natural · Cibola County, NM
BLM El Malpais National Conservation Area day-use site on NM 117 where a young basalt flow squeezes against a 500-foot sandstone mesa. The Narrows Rim Trail …
- New Mexico Mining Museum — Historic · Cibola County, NM
City of Grants museum interpreting the Grants uranium belt and broader New Mexico hard-rock mining, highlighted by a walk-through underground mine exhibit. C…
- San Rafael (Ojo del Gallo) — Historic · Cibola County, NM
Historic Hispanic village of San Rafael (formerly El Gallo) at Ojo del Gallo spring south of Grants on the malpais edge—site of the first Fort Wingate (1862)…
- Sandstone Bluffs Overlook — Geology · Cibola County, NM
Signed NPS overlook in El Malpais National Monument where Jurassic Zuni Sandstone cliffs drop to a black basalt lava sea. Sweeping views of McCartys and othe…