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Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
Plan Your Visit
The main hall of the Hubbell home.

NPS photo by Edward Chamberlin.

Interior of the Hubbell family home.

Things To Do:

  • 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.

  • 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 per person), the original home lived in by J. L. Hubbell and his family.

  • 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.

  • Attend a Native American art auction.
Rug painting by Bertha Little.  

Did You Know?
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.
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Last Updated: September 21, 2009 at 13:24 EST