Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
National Monument · NM
3 noticesfrom the National Park Service
Information · No Pets are allowed on the Cliff Dwelling Trail
Pets are not allowed onto the Gila Cliff Dwelling Trail. Kennels are available at the Trailhead on a First Come First Serve basis and are available to those that are going on the Cliff Dwelling Trail not the Wilderness trails.
Information · Secure trash and food
Pack it in, pack it out! There are no trash services in or around the monument. All food & trash must be secured inside a vehicle. Ravens routinely open zipped bags & tear into trash bags left outside or in the bed of a truck.
Information · Water Availability
There is NO water at the scorpion campgrounds and the trailhead for the cliff dwellings. Water is available at the Visitor Center, Woody's corral and TJ's corral.
For thousands of years, groups of nomads used the caves above Cliff Dweller Creek as temporary shelter. In the late 1200s, people of the agricultural Mogollon (Southern Ancestral Pueblo) culture made it a home. They built rooms, crafted pottery and raised children in the cliff dwellings for one or two generations. By approximately 1300, the Mogollon had moved on, leaving the walls behind.
- NPS site
- nps.gov/gicl
- Location
- Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (33.227, -108.271)
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Passport stamp locations
- Gila Visitor Center
Hours
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monumenttoday: 9:00AM - 4:00PM
- Sat Oct 39:00AM - 4:00PM
- Sun Oct 49:00AM - 4:00PM
- Mon Oct 59:00AM - 4:00PM
- Tue Oct 69:00AM - 4:00PM
- Wed Oct 79:00AM - 4:00PM
- Thu Oct 89:00AM - 4:00PM
- Fri Oct 99:00AM - 4:00PM
Upcoming closures: Nov 26 (Thanksgiving)
The National Monument and Visitor Center are open all year and are closed only for Thanksgiving Day (the 4th Thursday of November), Christmas Day (December 25) and New Year's Day (January 1).
Hours are retrieved from the National Park Service and can change without notice — check the official site before you go.
Visitor centers
2
- Gila Visitor Centertoday: 9:00AM - 4:00PMDirections
- WNP Park Storetoday: 9:00AM - 4:00PMDirections
Self-guided tours
1
Canyon Companion: Self-guided tour of the dwellings1–2 hours · 10 stops
This tour is designed for those hiking Cliff Dweller Canyon to view the Gila Cliff Dwellings. Allow at least one hour to hike the one-mile loop and explore the dwellings.
Entrance fees
No entrance fee.