Last updated: March 23, 2016
Alerts & Conditions
Alerts
Caution
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Visitors please take precautions to secure your vehicle and valuables, as you would in any city.
This is an urban park. Do not invite a thief. Do not leave valuables visible inside your car. Be sure to lock your vehicle and set car alarm. Increased parking lot patrols by park rangers have been effective in preventing recent break-ins. -
Stage II Fire Restrictions Effective Immediately
The following are prohibited: Lighting or maintaining an open flame. The use of petroleum-fueled stoves, grills, or any heating device. Use of fireworks, explosives, fuses, etc. No smoking outside VC nor on trails. Smoking only allowed inside vehicles.
Information
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Attention Visitors, Cab drivers, Uber drivers, and transportation service drivers
DO NOT drop off your passengers at the visitor center. No trail access. Visitors must be driven to a trail system from the visitor center. If passengers want to go to the visitor center, WAIT FOR THEM in the parking lot until they come back out.
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GPS Users: Visitor Center (Unser Blvd. NW at Western Trail) Lat. 35.1385 Long. -106.710801
To find the visitor center please use the coordinates provided in the 'Directions' link. Otherwise you will get lost driving in various neighborhoods that surround the monument. Do not go to Headquarters (6001 Unser Blvd.) it is not designed for visitors.
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Visitor Use Management Plan
The draft visitor use management plan, to formalize a trail system and manage public use, is being edited. Public meetings have not yet been scheduled. Please visit the NPS PEPC website for detailed information.
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