• Historic inscriptions carved in the bluff at El Morro.

    El Morro

    National Monument New Mexico

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For Kids

These young people are enjoying their visit to El Morro.
Kids enjoy leaving their own "inscriptions" the only place at El Morro where it's o.k. to—on the rocks in front of the visitor center.
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Image of kids and Mom at the kid's corner
Back at the visitor center, kids will find lots of books and other neat stuff in the "kid's corner".
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Did You Know?

Image of Simpson and Kern inscription from 1849

The first English inscription at El Morro, carved into the rock by Lt. J. H. Simpson and R. H. Kern in 1849, has a spelling error: "inscriptions" was spelled "insciptions" with the "r" inserted afterwards.