Aztec Ruins National Monument
National Monument · NM
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Information · Pet Policy
Pets are not allowed inside the visitor center at Aztec Ruins or on the trail through the Aztec West Great House. Pets are welcome in the parking lot, the picnic area, and along the Old Spanish Trail. Service animals are the only exception. Emotional support, therapy, and companion animals are not considered service animals and therefore not permitted in the visitor center or on the trail through Aztec West.
Aztec Ruins has some of the best-preserved Chacoan structures of its kind. Learn more about the ancestral Pueblo people in the park's museum and explore the Aztec West great house to see exceptionally advanced architecture, original wooden beams, and a restored Great Kiva. Aztec Ruins is a deeply sacred place to many Indigenous peoples across the American Southwest. Please visit with respect.
- NPS site
- nps.gov/azru
- Location
- Aztec Ruins National Monument (36.837, -108.000)
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument Visitor Center
Hours
Hourstoday: 7:00AM - 5:00PM
- Sat Oct 37:00AM - 5:00PM
- Sun Oct 47:00AM - 5:00PM
- Mon Oct 57:00AM - 5:00PM
- Tue Oct 67:00AM - 5:00PM
- Wed Oct 77:00AM - 5:00PM
- Thu Oct 87:00AM - 5:00PM
- Fri Oct 97:00AM - 5:00PM
Aztec Ruins National Monument is open to the public from 7:00am-5:00pm, which includes the parking areas, archeological sites, picnic areas, and trails. The visitor center is open from 9:00am-5:00pm daily. The monument and visitor center close on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Days. Unless there is a public program scheduled, there is no after-hours access. Vehicles are not permitted to be left in the parking lot after closing.
Hours are retrieved from the National Park Service and can change without notice — check the official site before you go.
Visitor centers
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument Visitor Centertoday: 9:00AM - 5:00PMDirections
Self-guided tours
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Aztec West Self-Guided Audio Tour30–45 minutes · 26 stops
Please note: stops 19 through 26 are cultural stories and do not have a corresponding numbered post on the self-guided trail. This trail guide invites you to experience Aztec Ruins from two perspectives: Interpretations based on excavations, research, and consultations with modern Southwestern tribes and the poetic, personal stories by a resident of Santa Clara Pueblo, one of several communities whose members are descendants of the people who lived throughout the Four Corners Region nine centuries ago.
Entrance fees
No entrance fee.