Hackberry Unit

Hackberry may not be the largest by our standards, but may have been the largest community here.

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Today Hackberry is represented by a few walls and mounds. Archeologists speculate that Hackberry’s community may have held one of the largest populations of all the Hovenweep units during the Pueblo III Period. As many as 250-350 people may have lived here. Hackberry's remaining walls and rubble remind us that the standing structures can only tell us so much of the ancestral Pueblo story.

The unique stone towers and other buildings at Hovenweep are extremely fragile. To help preserve them, please remain on trail and do not enter or touch any structure.