Chetro Ketl

Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Nageezi, New Mexico

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is both a unit of the National Park Service and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For 250 years starting around 900AD, Chaco Canyon, in northwestern New Mexico, was a major center for the Ancestral Puebloans.

Several great houses and other complexes were built, many of which were aligned with solar and lunar patterns. These were quite large, remaining the largest buildings in North America until the 1800s. Today the park is home to the largest concentration of ancient pueblo ruins in the United States.

The Photos (in order)

N05A1487 - Pueblo Bonito ruins from the Pueblo Alto Trail

N05A1407 - Pueblo Bonito ruins

N05A1463 - The restored Great Kiva of Chetro Ketl

N05A1517 - Chetro Ketl ruins from the Pueblo Alto Trail

N05A1476 - Kin Kletso ruins from the Pueblo Alto Trail

N05A1498 - New Alto ruins

N05A1388 - Una Vida is one of several petroglyphs sites in the park

N05A1536 - Pueblo del Arroyo ruins

Chaco Canyon National Historical Park - New Mexico USA

When I visited Chaco Canyon my main intention was to visit the Pueblo Bonito Great House. This is the largest and best known Great House in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico, It was was built by ancestral Pueblo people and occupied between AD 828 and 1126.
The site is located 4 1/2 miles from the visitor center on the 9-mile Canyon Loop Drive.
Pueblo Bonito is the most thoroughly investigated and celebrated cultural site in Chaco Canyon. Planned and constructed in stages between AD 850 to AD 1150 by ancestral Puebloan peoples, this was the center of the Chacoan world. That world eventually covered a vast area of the present-day Southwest, including the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, and portions of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. For over 300 years, Chacoan Culture united many diverse peoples within its sphere of influence.

I used that YouTube Anti-shake feature on this video. It gives it almost a surreal effect. You might notice that. Let me know your opinion of that YouTube feature.
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park


The Mystery of Chaco Canyon - documentary with Robert Redford narration


Pueblo Bonito


Pueblo Bonito 1995 Site Guide


I shot these video clips with a new camera I was learning to use. A Sony NEX 6 with the stock zoom lens.


Background music is Dreamscape from the Diane Arkenstone - The Healing Spirit album.

Chaco Canyon

Energy development (oil & gas, coal, uranium) is intensive in the area surrounding Chaco Culture
National Historical Park in Northwestern New Mexico. Chaco NHP is designated as a World Heritage
Site by the UNESCO and is one of the finest examples of Puebloan culture centers in the
Southwestern United States (inhabited AD 850-1250). Our video shows the encroachment of oil & gas development on Chaco.

New Mexico Travel: Chaco Culture National Historical Park--A Great New Mexico Travel Idea!

New Mexico Travel: Chaco Culture National Historical Park--A Great New Mexico Travel Idea!

New Mexico Travel Mill presents this video of highlights from Chaco Culture National Historical Park, located in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico in the United States. The park is located in the Four Corners region--so called because it is the area where the borders of the states of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado meet.

Chaco Canyon was home to ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) people from about 850 A.D. -1250 A.D. and remains a place of spiritual and cultural significance to the Native Americans of the southwestern U.S. today. The park includes six major cultural sites: Una Vida, Hungo Pavi, Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl, Pueblo del Arroyo, and Casa Rinconada.

The video includes an animated, aerial view of Una Vida, Hungo Pavi, Chetro Ketl, and Pueblo Bonito (the center of the Chacoan world). This perspective allows you do have an overview of Chaco Canyon and see how the sites are situated with respect to each other and the surrounding land.

You will also see video of many of the sites of the park: the ruins of several Great Houses--large complexes of up to 700 rooms; kivas--ceremonial areas; plazas; and petroglyphs (rock carvings) on the Petroglyph Trail. Some of the sites have been excavated and others have not. You will see ancient stairways, windows, rooms, plazas, and vast multi-story structures.

If you are looking for New Mexico travel ideas, consider visiting the Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Explore the canyon by car, hike by foot, or ride your bicycle with guided or self-guided tours. Your vacation is sure to be educational and fun!

Chaco Culture National Historical Park, National Park Service video


Chaco Canyon National Historical Park - New Mexico USA video


Inside Pueblo Bonito Indian Ruin at Chaco Culture National Historic Park video


Wikipedia, Chaco Culture National Historical Park


TripAdvisor, Chaco Culture National Historical Park


National Park Service, Chaco Culture National Historical Park


Frommer's, Chaco Culture National Historical Park


UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Chaco Culture National Historical Park


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Chaco Canyon/New Mexico/May 2012

This is a slideshow I put together of my trip to Santa Fe to visit my good friends, John and Vincent. We camped for one night in Chaco Canyon. These are all single images

Chaco Canyon New Mexico Pueblo Native American City

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the United States' most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas.[2]
Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.[a] Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes which remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century.[2][4] Evidence of archaeoastronomy at Chaco has been proposed, with the Sun Dagger petroglyph at Fajada Butte a popular example. Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles,[5] requiring generations of astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction.[6] Climate change is thought to have led to the emigration of Chacoans and the eventual abandonment of the canyon, beginning with a fifty-year drought commencing in 1130.[7]
Composing a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the arid and sparsely populated Four Corners region, the Chacoan cultural sites are fragile; fears of erosion caused by tourists have led to the closure of Fajada Butte to the public. The sites are considered sacred ancestral homelands by the Hopi and Pueblo people, who maintain oral accounts of their historical migration from Chaco and their spiritual relationship to the land.[8][9] Though park preservation efforts can conflict with native religious beliefs, tribal representatives work closely with the National Park Service to share their knowledge and respect the heritage of the Chacoan culture.[8]

Travel Guide New Mexico tm Chaco Canyon & Aztec Ruins Bloomfield New Mexico

Aztec Ruins National Monument

Follow ancient passageways to a distant time. Explore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms. Look up and see original timbers holding up the roof. Search for the fingerprints of ancient workers in the stucco walls. Listen for an echo of ritual drums in the reconstructed Great Kiva. Adventure into the past.

Chaco Canyon
From AD 850 to 1250, Chaco was a hub of ceremony, trade, and administration for the prehistoric Four Corners area--unlike anything before or since. Chaco is remarkable for its multi-storied public buildings, ceremonial buildings, and distinctive architecture. These structures required considerable planning, designing, organizing of labor, and engineering to construct. The Chacoan people combined many elements: pre-planned architectural designs, astronomical alignments, geometry, landscaping, and engineering to create an ancient urban center of spectacular public architecture--one that still awes and inspires us a thousand years later.

HISTORICAL PLACES OF NEW MEXICO STATE,U S A IN GOOGLE EARTH PART TWO ( 2/3 )

HISTORICAL PLACES OF NEW MEXICO STATE,USA PART TWO (2/3)

1. PHOENIX EARTHSHIP,TRES PIEDRAS 36°31'10.51N 105°45'27.79W (M)
2. BANDERA VOLCANO,GRANTS 35° 0'0.72N 108° 5'0.46W
3. MUSEUM & EXPLORA ,ALBUQUERQUE 35° 5'52.71N 106°39'55.80W
4. GILLA CLIFF DWELLINGS,SILVER CITY 33°13'39.74N 108°16'7.50W
5. PECOS NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK,PECOS 35°32'52.59N 105°41'18.89W
6. TARGET,TATUM 33°21'58.97N 103°35'6.48W
7. TARGET,JAL 32° 4'58.96N 103°39'47.50W
8. TARGET,TATUM 33°12'22.66N 103°35'5.17W
9. CHURCH,ALBUQUERQUE 35° 4'28.66N 106°34'58.50W
10. LOST GOLD OF VICTORIO PEAK,LAS CRUCES 32°55'27.20N 106°38'29.36W
11. CORONADO HISTORIC SITE,BERNALILLO 35°19'49.41N 106°33'26.56W
12. PUEBLO DEL ARROYO (AD 1050 TO 1075),NAGEEZI 36° 3'40.43N 107°57'56.46W
13. SALINAS PUEBLO RUINS,ABO 34°26'59.22N 106°22'30.22W
14. ST.FRANCIS CATHEDRAL,SANTA FE 35°41'10.95N 105°56'10.85W
15. CASA RINCONADA,NAGEEZI 36° 3'16.87N 107°57'32.92W
16. RATTLER WOODEN ROLLER COASTER,ALBUQUERQUE 35° 8'35.84N 106°35'15.56W
17. ROSWELL UFO MUSEUM,ROSWELL 33°23'36.84N 104°31'23.07W
18. PUEBLO BONITO (650 ROOMS),NAGEEZI 36° 3'38.61N 107°57'41.65W
19. TARGET, CAPROCK 33°20'7.78N 103°45'25.91W
20. UNA VIDA (AD 900 ),NAGEEZI 36° 2'0.55N 107°54'43.46W
21. TRINITY SITE,SAN ANTONIO 33°40'39.76N 106°28'30.00W
22. OLD STATE CAPITOL,SANTA FE 35°41'1.65N 105°56'30.27W

Inside Pueblo Bonito Indian Ruin at Chaco Culture National Historic Park

A journey through Pueblo Bonito, an Anasazi Indian Ruin in Chaco Canyon in Northwest New Mexico.

STONES OF CHACO CANYON NEW MEXICO-Display.m4v

The video 'Stones of Chaco Canyon' accompanied my summer solstice book reading of Sundagger.net in Hercules, CA. This video is produced and edited by Ko Blix with original piano music by Chris Goslow. It's a magical vision of the Anasazi stone ruins enveloped in dream-like sound. A perfect complement to Sundagger.net, a mystery in another dimension--Tony Hillerman.

Chaco Canyon - In Search of White House

This project will eventually be a long form documentary about Chaco Canyon National Historical Park located in New Mexico. These test sequences highlight the Chaco Great Houses of Wijiji and Hungo Pavi with some interior shots of Pueblo Bonito. Archaeologist Stephen Lekson briefly discusses the implications of Chaco Canyon as the location of White House, an extremely important and powerful place in the oral histories of the Pueblo People. This is a work in progress filmed and edited by David Herzberg.

Construction Styles in Chaco Canyon

Park Ranger G.B. Cornucopia explains the differences between Phase 1 and Core and Vanier masonry found throughout Chaco Canyon. Find more info, photos, videos, and maps of Chaco Canyon at

Inside Pueblo Bonito

A tour inside one of the largest rooms within the Pueblo Bonito ruins, Chaco Canyon. Chaco Canyon is located near the four-corners area of the United States. People have lived there for thousands of years. Starting at about AD 900, a remarkable set of building activities took place, resulting in the construction of Great Houses. These include Pueblo Bonito, Pueblo Alto and Chetro Ketl, among others. The Great Houses were abandoned sometime around AD 1250. They remain to remind visitors today about the skill and organization of the people who lived there.

The Chaco Stratigraphy project is an interdisciplinary research program at the University of New Mexico. Part of its program includes a field school where students can get first hand experience at archaeology.

The Road to Chaco Canyon

via YouTube Capture

Quarai Ruins Salinas Pueblo Missions NM New Mexico Pro Erick F Dircks

02-05-2015
We spent the day visiting several Mission Ruins around the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. Just glad it is 2015!

Song composed by Russell Kaspar!

Chaco Canyon/Piñon Pipeline

This is an overview of shale oil fracking and pipeline building near Chaco Canyon, NM. It shows Chaco, drilling, and the opposition on the land, and at BLM public meetings in Lybrook and Santa Fe, NM. The Federal Bureau of Land Management is permitting fracking of the Mancos Shale in NW New Mexico by Chaco Canyon, a World Heritage Site, and planning a major new oil pipeline through Navajo communities, the Piñon Pipeline. The Chaco Coalition is organizing in opposition. This 20 minute film presents an overview for use at house parties, organizational meetings, or for any educational purpose. Please share widely.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Follow Youth In Park Rangers Margaret, Drew and Brigitte as they visit Chaco Culture National Historical Park! Today the massive buildings of the ancestral Pueblo peoples still testify to the organizational and engineering abilities not seen anywhere else in the American Southwest. For a deeper contact with the canyon that was central to thousands of people between 850 and 1250 A.D., come and explore Chaco through guided tours, hiking & biking trails, evening campfire talks, and night sky programs.

Drive to Chaco Canyon New Mexico

Chaco Canyon is located in northwestern New Mexico.

Hwy 57 (14). Rough road not recommended for RV's.

Via Hwy 57(Hwy 14 on some maps): This turnoff is located on Highway 9, 13 miles east of Highway 371, at the former Seven Lakes Trading Post. (20 miles of dirt).

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Chaco Culture National Historical Park has the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the United States' most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas. Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples. Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes which remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

I took a road trip around New Mexico in May 2013 and Chaco NHP was certainly the highlight. Visited Chaco Canyon on May 11-12, 2013. What an amazing place to visit. This video contains five shorter videos spliced together. They are of Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl, Penasco Blanco, and the backcountry along the Penasco Blanco Trail. I hiked over 20 miles in two days. Worth every step.