• Great Kiva with Walls of West Ruin

    Aztec Ruins

    National Monument New Mexico

Be A Junior Ranger

Volunteer Awarding Two Junior Ranger Badges

Volunteer Awarding Two Junior Ranger Badges

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Junior Ranger Program

Children can become Junior Rangers and earn an Aztec Ruins Junior Ranger badge by exploring the ruins and answering questions in our Junior Ranger booklet, provided at the visitor center. Along the way they learn about the history and preservation of this place while making connections to the Ancestral Pueblo world. Earning a junior ranger badge takes about half an hour, and the program is free.

Did You Know?

Excavated Hubbard Tri Wall

Aztec Ruins has the largest known concentration of triwall structures in the Southwest. An archeological enigma, the Hubbard Site is one of three such buildings found within the monument