• Springtime at Hubbell

    Hubbell Trading Post

    National Historic Site Arizona

Plan Your Visit

Interior of Hubbell family home.

Interior of the Hubbell family home.

NPS photo by E.Chamberlin.

Things To Do:

  • CLOSED--Please Note, the Hubbell Family Home will be closed March 18 - April 21 for the installation of a new heating and air conditioning system. We appologize for the inconvenience. You may electronically visit the home through a computerized virtual tour of the house located in the park visitor center. Click here to read the press release.

  • Join a ranger guided walk for an in-depth interpretation of the Hubbell homestead, business and ranch. Use this link to read more about this tour.

  • Explore the oldest continuously operating trading post in the American Southwest. Shop for authentic Navajo rugs, jewelry, and baskets.

  • Enter the bullpen of the trading post where the community shops for food and dry goods. Buy a delicious snack for the road.

  • Watch, listen and experience the trader buy a Navajo rug from a skilled Navajo weaver.

  • Experience Joy, at the annual Holiday Luminaria night.

  • Wander through the grounds of the Hubbell family homestead and see the barn, bunkhouse, guest hogan, historic farm equipment, horses, chickens, and Navajo Churro sheep.

  • Attend a "Sheep Is Life" workshop to learn about Navajo Lifeways.

  • Join a tour of the historic Hubbell home ($2 / person); the family home of J. L. Hubbell.

  • Watch the Navajo artist in the Visitor Center weave a Navajo rug.

  • Learn how to weave a Navajo rug first hand on the visitor's loom, also in the Visitor Center.

  • Participate in a Native American art auction.

Did You Know?

Rug painting by Bertha Little.

Artists visiting Hubbell Trading Post in the early 1900s painted illustrations of Navajo rugs for J.L.Hubbell. He displayed the paintings on the wall in his rug room for weavers and visitors to admire. Today Navajo weavers still use these 81 illustrations for inspiration. More...