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Bookmark or Share- New Mexico Backroads Trip That Travels Off the Beaten PathEl Morro National Monument (43 miles west): Another off-the-beaten-path national monument on Highway 53 features petroglyphs and graffiti from the 1800’s carved into stone. Be sure to take Mesa Rock Trail to the top of the rock formations to explore an ancient pueblo.
- El Morro National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)A reliable waterhole hidden at the base of a sandstone bluff made El Morro (the headland) a popular campsite for hundreds of years. Here, ancestral Puebloans, Spanish, and American travelers carved over 2,000 signatures, dates, messages, and petroglyphs.
- Things To Do - El Morro National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)Walk the Inscription Rock Trail and see why El Morro was proclaimed a national monument.This trail takes you to the pool and past hundreds of Spanish and early American inscriptions, as well as pre–historical petroglyphs.
- 10 Tips for Visiting El Morro National MonumentEl Morro National Monument is a small park in rural northwest New Mexico. The site is home to over 1,000 years of human history which visitors can explore along our two trails. El Morro's remote location and limited operating hours make advanced planning a necessity.
- Visitor Center - El Morro National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)Exhibits located in the visitor center span more than 700 years of human history in the El Morro area. A 15-minute video provides a great introduction to the cultural and natural history of El Morro. The current visitor center was completed in 1964 as part of the Mission 66 effort.
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