Our 12-block downtown area is best enjoyed on foot. It is bordered by
Route 66, Main Steet (north), Hill Avenue (south), Fourth Sheet (west) and First Steet
(east). Interesting turn-of-the-century architecture as well as most of the downtown trading posts and galleries are located here, especially along Route 66 and Coal Avenue. The former Rex Hotel (now the Rex Museum) is of special interest and located at 300 W. Route 66. The McKinley County Courthouse , 201 W. Hill, gives you a look at the appealing Pueblo Revival style. The historic El Mono Theater at 207 W. Coal is the finest example of thedecorative Spanish Colonial Revival slyle. The Gallup Cultural Center, located in the restored historic railroad station on Route 66, is a project of the Southwest Indian
Foundation. It consists of the Ceremonial Gallery, the Storyteller Museum, a Visitor Center
and the Kiva Cinema.
Founded by Don Lorenzo Hubbell, thistading dynasty was opened in 1878. He was a pioneering collector of western and Native Americanart and much of his collection is on display. The store offers Native American arts and crafts.
This area was settled in the 10th century. Oneof the park's signature skuctures, Pueblo Bonito, reached a height of four stories and morethan 600 rooms within a hundred years. The canyon was abandoned in the 11th centuryby the ancestral Puebloans. Chaco Canyon has few traveler services and is accessible onlyby dirt roads
These picturesque, arid cliffs with large rockspires called "hoodoos" is a hiker's and photographer's gold mine. This is a true wildemess area,without services; be sure to take your own supplies and water.
Some of the most scenic vistas in the Southwestare contained in this colorful valley. Isolated monoliths, 1,000 feet and higher, punctuate thelandscape.
Trees prosperd herc about 225million years ago in what was then a temperate, swampy zone. Giant petified logs nowcover 93,533 acres. The fantastically hued Painted Desert is on the park's northemboundary.
Located in Chinle, Arizona (90 miles fromGallup). Deep canyons protect early Anasazi dwellings. Hike, drive and guided toursavailable. A must see site.
The Hopi Reservation, sunounded by Navajo land,can be entered through Keams Canyon. Reservation trading posts carry Hopi arts and crafts.
Inscription Rock is the most spectacular feature of this park standing 200 feeth high. Ancient petroglyphs precede the mark made in 1605 by Don Juan Onate, ,whowas the first colonial governor of New Mexico.
This preserve of 376,000 acres seems like a landscape on the moon. lt has lava beds, cones and the Ice Cave at Bandera Volcano. The Ice Cave has conditions that allow ice to remain frozen solid, even durring summer. Another arresting formation is La Ventana ('The Widow"), one of the Southwest's largest free-standing natural arches. The "primitive" park of El Malpais offers hiking.
Site of monthly Navajo Rug auctions- Many collectors consider this their primary source for high-grade weaving.
One of the Nations most distinctive peaks, Shiprock rises more than 1,700 feet above the desert floor, to an elevation of 7,178 feet. The formation is closed to hikers and climbers, but is worth viewing for its majestic grandeur, especially at sunset.
Capital of the Navajo Nation since 1938, Window Rock is exactiy that - a huge sandstone formation with a "window" wind carved right through the center. Services include the Navajo tribal Museum and self guided tours.
The only surviving settlement of corona's fable seven cities of gold. Zuni Pueblo dates it's Hispanic influence from crafts. People are known for exquisite silver, pottery and carved Kachina Dolls.
Red Rock State Park is just four miles east of Gallup. The museum provides an overview of regional indian ciltures, with examples provides an overview of regional lndian jewlery
making, and carving on display.