• Historic inscriptions carved in the bluff at El Morro.

    El Morro

    National Monument New Mexico

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History & Culture

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Photo By Chris Reed
 

From a main east-west trail, dating from antiquity, rises the great sandstone promontory of El Morro. Over the centuries, those who traveled this trail stopped to camp at the shaded oasis beneath these cliffs. They left the carved evidence of their passing -- symbols, names, dates, and fragments of their stories that register the cultures and history intermingled on the rock.

Did You Know?

Image of the 1st ranger cabin/tourist shelter at El Morro National Monument

The first ranger cabin at El Morro National Monument, which also served as a tourist shelter, was built in the early 1900s and began as nothing more than a wooden shed.