• Great Kiva with Walls of West Ruin

    Aztec Ruins

    National Monument New Mexico

Special Park Use

A special park use permit is required for commercial photography, commercial filming, and some other uses. To request a special use permit, you must complete one of the following forms and submit it with your application fee.

Contact Park Ranger Tracy Bodnar at 505-334-6174 or tracy_bodnar@nps.gov if you have any questions.

Application for Commercial Filming/Still Photography permit in MSword. As a pdf.

Application for Special Park Use permit in MSword. As a pdf.

Did You Know?

Third story of Aztec West with Kiva

These “Aztec” Ruins are not ancient Aztec temples. Ancestral Pueblo people built this place. Scholars once thought the Aztecs migrated to Mexico from the southwestern U.S., causing early settlers to mistakenly call these monumental ruins along the Animas River - the "Aztec Ruins."