• Great Kiva with Walls of West Ruin

    Aztec Ruins

    National Monument New Mexico

Plan Your Visit

In addition to self-guided experiences, Aztec Ruins has a number of regular programs and special events going on throughout the year.

Goods, services, and accommodations to support your ancestral Pueblo explorations at Aztec Ruins are available in the nearby cities of Aztec, Bloomfield, Farmington, and Durango.

Click the links to the left for more information.

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Did You Know?

Core and veneer wall

In places, the walls at Aztec Ruins are three feet thick, making them over twice as thick as Mesa Verde cliff dwelling architecture.  Masons used the “core and veneer” style, laying a thick rubble core within a finely shaped stone veneer. This style is typical of Chaco Canyon "great house" sites.