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Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Your Safety
Employee giving visitors an orientation
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Visitors get an orientation to the area.
 

For the sake of preserving the dwellings and ensuring visitor safety, the public is asked to observe the following rules when visiting the Monument:

  • Please stay on the trail.
  • Please do not sit, climb, touch, or lean on ruin walls.
  • If an artifact is found, do not touch it. Report it to the nearest ranger, so that a proper excavation may be done and more may be learned about the people who lived here.
  • Use of tobacco products, food, and any beverage other than water is not allowed on the trail.
Geronimo Plaque  

Did You Know?
Geronimo said, “I was born at the headwaters of the Gila River.” The Gila area in New Mexico is the traditional homeland of the Eastern Bands of Chiricahua Apache and remains important to their oral traditions, history and cultural identity.

Last Updated: July 25, 2006 at 00:23 EST