Chaco Canyon & Culture Center
Hi all! We're leaving March 17 from Florida to travel to SW UT and the 4 Corners area for 2 months. On the way out, we'd like to stop in NW New Mexico and detour to Chaco Canyon. But I understand i...
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Campground was not free when we stayed there in 2013, but it was inexpensive, half price with Senior Pass. In 2014, the NPS put it into an online reservations system (much better than driving all that way and finding it full).
Chaco is a UNESCO World Heritage site (like the Pyramids, Acropolis, etc.) and visiting was one of our most memorable RVing experiences..
Reading up on it in advance and seeing many of the smaller Ancestral Puebloan sites first enhanced the experience and helped us understand the significance. We attended a one-day seminar at Crow Canyon center near Mesa Verde at Cortez, CO, two years before, and they really gave a base of good info about the "Chacoan World." Worth doing if you like SW ruins... that class is fun and offered regularly.
Staying overnight alongside some of the Chaco ruins at the campground was special, and it is so far from civilization that the night skies are magnificent.
Chaco is a UNESCO World Heritage site (like the Pyramids, Acropolis, etc.) and visiting was one of our most memorable RVing experiences..
Reading up on it in advance and seeing many of the smaller Ancestral Puebloan sites first enhanced the experience and helped us understand the significance. We attended a one-day seminar at Crow Canyon center near Mesa Verde at Cortez, CO, two years before, and they really gave a base of good info about the "Chacoan World." Worth doing if you like SW ruins... that class is fun and offered regularly.
Staying overnight alongside some of the Chaco ruins at the campground was special, and it is so far from civilization that the night skies are magnificent.
