El Morro National Monument

El Morro National Monument

Northwest region of New Mexico A reliable waterhole hidden at its base made El Morro (or Inscription Rock) a popular campsite. Beginning in the late 1500s, Spanish, and later, Americans passed by El Morro. While they rested in its shade and drank from the pool, many carved their signatures, dates, and messages. Before the Spanish, petroglyphs were inscribed by ancestral Puebloans living on top of the bluff more than 700 years ago. Today, El Morro National Monument protects over 2,000 inscriptions and petroglyphs, as well as Ancestral Puebloan ruins.

El Morro National Monument
HC 61 Box 43
Ramah, NM 87321
Phone: (505)783-4226
www.nps.gov/elmo/

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