Historic Sites

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Nevada (50)

Austin — Lander County, NV
1860s silver boomtown near Nevada's geographic center and a landmark stop on US-50 (the Loneliest Road). Once rivaled Virginia City in mineral output; Stokes…
Beowawe — Eureka County, NV
1868 Central Pacific railroad town in northern Eureka County (Paiute name for the valley ‘gate’). Gravelly Ford and the Maiden’s Grave link it to the Califor…
Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park — Nye County, NV
The only place on Earth where you can see an intact ghost town and 225-million-year-old marine reptile fossils in the same park. The fossil shelter protects …
Blair Junction — Esmeralda County, NV
Former Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad junction west of Coaldale where the Blair branch left the main line for the Silver Peak country. Today it is a lonely des…
Boulder City Historic District — Clark County, NV
Boulder City Historic District is a historic district in Clark County, NV, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, recognized for signifi…
Bowers Mansion — Washoe County, NV
Opulent 1863 Comstock-era mansion built by Sandy and Eilley Bowers from Virginia City silver fortune, set on the east slope of the Sierra in Washoe Valley. N…
California Trail Interpretive Center — Elko County, NV
BLM interpretive center on the historic California Trail at I-80 Hunter Exit 292, about 8 miles west of Elko. Free indoor exhibits, dioramas, and outdoor tra…
Cold Springs Pony Express Station — Churchill County, NV
National Register ruins of an 1860–61 Pony Express station on Loneliest Road (US-50), with one of the best-preserved stone station shells on the Nevada segme…
Contact — Elko County, NV
Copper-mining community on US-93 south of Jackpot, active from the 1890s with hotel, newspaper, and smelter-era boom, then largely emptied after a 1942 fire.…
Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park — Douglas County, NV
Preserved Carson Valley ranch core from the 1857 Dangberg family homestead, with eight historic structures set against the Sierra front. Day-use park grounds…
Dayton — Lyon County, NV
Nevada’s first gold-discovery settlement (1849) and early Lyon County seat on the Carson River. Gold Canyon mills processed Comstock ore; boardwalk Old Town,…
Derby Dam — Storey County, NV
First major diversion structure of the U.S. Reclamation Service (Bureau of Reclamation), completed 1905 on the Truckee River east of Reno. The low concrete d…
Devil's Gate — Lyon County, NV
Narrow metamorphic reef that funneled every wagon, stage, and ore team onto the Comstock Lode. Nevada State Historical Marker No. 223 marks the gorge where G…
Double Springs — Douglas County, NV
Roadside historic waystation site on the old Esmeralda road at a pair of natural springs south of Gardnerville / Carson Valley—also known as Round Tent Ranch…
Elgin Schoolhouse State Historic Site — Lincoln County, NV
One-room schoolhouse in Rainbow Canyon that educated grades 1–8 from 1922 to 1967, preserved as a Nevada State Parks historic site with period furnishings. O…
Empire and the Carson River Mills — Carson City, NV
Nevada Historical Marker No. 1 at US-50 and Akron Way interprets Empire and the great Comstock-era stamp mills on the Carson River—Mexican, Yellow Jacket, Br…
Eureka — Eureka County, NV
One of Nevada's best-preserved mining boomtowns on US-50. Silver-lead discovery (1864) made Eureka second only to the Comstock; the Eureka Historic District …
Extraterrestrial Hwy / Rachel — Lincoln County, NV
Official Extraterrestrial Highway (SR-375) runs ~98 miles through remote Lincoln County past the restricted Nellis Range complex. The tiny town of Rachel anc…
Fort Churchill — Lyon County, NV
Adobe ruins of Nevada's first U.S. Army post, built in 1860 after the Pyramid Lake War to protect the Overland Trail and Pony Express. Now a state historic p…
Fort Ruby — White Pine County, NV
Civil War–era U.S. Army post (Camp Ruby, 1862–1869) guarding the Overland Trail, stage, and telegraph routes at the east entrance to Overland Pass from Ruby …
Gerlach — Washoe County, NV
Tiny railroad and desert-gateway town at the edge of the Black Rock Desert—founded with the Western Pacific line, home to the National Register Gerlach Water…
Golconda — Humboldt County, NV
California Emigrant Trail landmark and Central Pacific Railroad shipping station on the Humboldt River, famous for mineral hot springs that once supported a …
Hiko — Lincoln County, NV
Pahranagat Valley agrarian hamlet and former Lincoln County seat (1867–1871) on SR 318. Silver-mill ruins, cemetery, and a red-rock general-store building ma…
Hoover Dam — Clark County, NV
1930s Bureau of Reclamation arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River at the Nevada–Arizona line. Visitor center, powerplant tours, memorials, and the dam roadw…
Jacobsville — Lander County, NV
First Lander County seat (1862–63) on the Reese River west of Austin — Overland Stage, Pony Express, and early telegraph relay stop founded by sheriff George…
Lehman Caves — Great Basin NP, NV
Stunning marble caverns within Great Basin National Park with rare cave shields, stalactites, and a gothic palace room. Stays 50 degrees year-round. Ranger-g…
Lovelock Cave Historic Site — Churchill County, NV
BLM-managed rock shelter on the edge of the Humboldt Sink, famed as the “Cradle of Great Basin Archaeology.” Guano miners and later UC Berkeley and other tea…
Middlegate Station — Churchill County, NV
Living roadhouse on US-50 (the Loneliest Road) at historic Middlegate, roughly 45–50 miles east of Fallon. Site sits on a corridor used since Pony Express / …
Mormon Station State Historic Park — Douglas County, NV
Nevada’s first permanent non-native settlement site in Genoa, founded in 1851 as a California Trail trading post before the Sierra crossing. The state histor…
Mountain City — Elko County, NV
Far-northeastern Nevada mining town on the Owyhee River, founded 1869 as Cope after placer and lode discoveries, renamed Mountain City the same year. Boom-er…
Mountain House — Douglas County, NV
Historical stage-and-ranch locale in southern Carson Valley / Topaz approaches, recorded as a populated place on early maps. A thin Douglas County historic f…
Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park — Clark County, NV
Nevada’s oldest Anglo-American building site: the 1855 adobe fort established by Mormon missionaries at the Las Vegas Springs, later a ranch and stop on the …
Panaca Charcoal Kilns — Lincoln County, NV
Pair of 1870s stone beehive charcoal kilns high in the Cedar Range east of Panaca. Built to supply high-quality charcoal to Bullionville and Pioche smelters,…
Pigeon Spring Stamp Mill — Esmeralda County, NV
1890–1907 ten-stamp mill and short-lived settlement on the Lida–Palmetto road, with mill ruins still visible from SR-266. A small camp once held a store, sal…
Ragtown — Churchill County, NV
Abandoned 1854 Carson River trading post and emigrant waystation west of Fallon, nicknamed for clothes cast off by desert-crossing travelers. Nevada State Hi…
Sand Springs Pony Express Station — Churchill County, NV
Stabilized 1860 Pony Express / Overland Stage station ruins on the approach to Sand Mountain Recreation Area. Buried by dunes and rediscovered in 1976, the m…
Schell Creek Station Interpretive Site — White Pine County, NV
Pony Express National Historic Trail interpretive turnout on US-93 west of Schellbourne. NDOT rest area with picnic tables and restrooms plus a short path to…
Sedan Crater — Nye County, NV
Sedan Crater is the scar from the 6 July 1962 Plowshare nuclear excavation test on Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site. The ~1,280-ft-wide, ~320-…
Silver Peak — Esmeralda County, NV
One of Nevada’s oldest continuously occupied mining communities (silver discovery 1863; townsite 1864). Stamp mills, boom-and-bust silver/gold cycles, a 1948…
Sixmile Canyon — Storey County, NV
East-draining Comstock freight and mill canyon from Virginia City toward the Carson River plains—site of early placer work, the Flowery District, and 1860s–7…
Spring Mountain Ranch State Park — Clark County, NV
Historic working ranch and luxury retreat at the base of the Spring Mountains adjacent to Red Rock Canyon NCA. Past owners include Chester Lauck, actress Ver…
Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum — Carson City, NV
Public museum and cultural center on the historic Stewart Indian School campus in Carson City, interpreting the boarding-school era and the experiences of Na…
Sutro Tunnel — Lyon County, NV
Adolph Sutro's legendary 3.88-mile Comstock drainage and access tunnel (1869–1878), driven from the Carson River valley near Dayton northwest to the Savage M…
Techatticup Mine, Eldorado Canyon — Clark County, NV
Nevada's oldest and richest gold mine in dramatic Eldorado Canyon on the Colorado River. Guided underground mine tours through original tunnels that produced…
Thompson Smelter — Lyon County, NV
Concrete pillars and foundations of the Mason Valley Mines Company copper smelter (opened 1912) that processed Yerington-district ore beside the Nevada Coppe…
Thunder Mountain Monument — Pershing County, NV
Outsider-art complex and living memorial built from 1969 by Frank Van Zant (Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder) beside I-80 at Imlay. Concrete, bottle-glass, and…
Tonopah Historic Mining Park — Nye County, NV
Managed 100+ acre outdoor museum on original Tonopah silver-camp ground covering four historic companies (including Mizpah, Silver Top, Desert Queen). Self-g…
Wabuska — Lyon County, NV
Railroad hamlet on the Carson & Colorado (later SP) that boomed as a Mason Valley shipping and junction point after 1881, then again with the Nevada Copper B…
Ward Charcoal Ovens — White Pine County, NV
Six perfectly preserved 30-foot beehive-shaped stone charcoal kilns built in 1876 to supply fuel for the Ward silver smelter. Among the best-preserved indust…
Weed Heights — Lyon County, NV
Anaconda company town built for the Yerington open-pit copper mine (1952–1978). The town still overlooks the flooded, turquoise-tinted pit; a public viewpoin…

California (80)

Allensworth Historic District — Tulare County, CA
Allensworth Historic District is a historic district in Tulare County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, recognized for signifi…
Alviso Historic District — Santa Clara County, CA
Alviso Historic District is a historic district in Santa Clara County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for signifi…
Amador City — Amador County, CA
One of California’s smallest incorporated cities and a classic Mother Lode gold-rush main street on Old Highway 49 between Sutter Creek and Drytown. Founded …
Arena Cove Historic District — Mendocino County, CA
Arena Cove Historic District is a historic district in Mendocino County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, recognized for signi…
Ashford Mill — Inyo County, CA
Concrete ruins of a short-lived Death Valley gold mill and office on the valley floor off Badwater Road. Ore came from the Ashford Mine high in the Black Mou…
Asphalto — Kern County, CA
Historical asphaltum / oil-country settlement on the west side of the southern San Joaquin Valley near the McKittrick–Taft mineral belt. A field-history pin …
Black Diamond Mines (Somersville) — Contra Costa County, CA
Heart of California’s largest 19th-century coal field, now inside East Bay Regional Park District’s Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. Somersville was on…
Bombay Beach — Imperial County, CA
Faded Salton Sea resort town on the northeast shore that boomed mid-century and later became a surreal open-air art and ruinscape of half-buried trailers, pi…
Burro Schmidt Tunnel — Kern County, CA
Half-mile hand-dug tunnel through solid granite in the El Paso Mountains — one man, pick and dynamite, 1906–1938. NRHP-listed desert oddity overlooking Fremo…
Chiriaco Summit — Riverside County, CA
I-10 desert summit community built around the General Patton Memorial Museum and the former Desert Training Center / Camp Young logistics corridor. The museu…
Coloma — El Dorado County, CA
Coloma is a historic district in El Dorado County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in industry; e…
Columbia Historic District — Tuolumne County, CA
Columbia Historic District is a historic district in Tuolumne County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for signific…
Conway Summit — Mono County, CA
Highest point on U.S. Highway 395 (~8,143 ft) between Bridgeport and Mono Lake, with a signed Mono Lake Scenic Viewpoint that opens a classic Eastern Sierra …
Cottonwood Historic District — Shasta County, CA
Cottonwood Historic District is a historic district in Shasta County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for signific…
Death Valley Junction (Amargosa Opera House) — Inyo County, CA
Former Pacific Coast Borax company town and rail junction on the Amargosa Desert, centered on Marta Becket’s legendary hand-painted Amargosa Opera House — ad…
Dumont — San Bernardino County, CA
Historical Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad siding and desert place near the Amargosa River approaches to Dumont Dunes. A thin rail-era historic pin for the T&T …
Dutch Flat Historic District — Placer County, CA
Dutch Flat Historic District is a historic district in Placer County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for signific…
Elk Grove Historic District — Sacramento County, CA
Elk Grove Historic District is a historic district in Sacramento County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, recognized for signi…
Eureka Historic District — Humboldt County, CA
Eureka Historic District is a historic district in Humboldt County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, recognized for significan…
Fernbridge — Humboldt County, CA
Fernbridge is a historic structure in Humboldt County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, recognized for significance in enginee…
Fiddletown — Amador County, CA
Fiddletown is a historic district in Amador County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, recognized for significance in exploratio…
Fort Piute — San Bernardino County, CA
Stone ruins of a short-lived U.S. Army outpost (1866–1867) built to protect mail and emigrants on the Mojave Road, set above rare perennial Piute Creek on th…
French Gulch Historic District — Shasta County, CA
French Gulch Historic District is a historic district in Shasta County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, recognized for signif…
Ghost Mountain (Yaquitepec) — San Diego County, CA
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park trailhead and short steep hike to the adobe ruins of Yaquitepec—Marshal and Tanya South’s 1930s–1940s experiment in primitive …
Goffs — San Bernardino County, CA
Former AT&SF / National Old Trails Road and Route 66 railroad community at the eastern edge of Mojave National Preserve country. The restored 1914 Goffs Scho…
Greenmeadow — Santa Clara County, CA
Greenmeadow is a historic district in Santa Clara County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, recognized for significance in arch…
Halcyon Historic District — San Luis Obispo County, CA
Halcyon Historic District is a historic district in San Luis Obispo County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017, recognized for si…
Harmony Borax Works — Death Valley, CA
Ruins of the operation that launched the famous 20-mule team borax wagons in 1883. Original processing vats and equipment remain near Furnace Creek in an eas…
Highland Historic District — San Bernardino County, CA
Highland Historic District is a historic district in San Bernardino County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, recognized for si…
Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park — Amador County, CA
California State Historic Park (Chaw'se) in the Sierra foothills near Pine Grove preserving North America's largest collection of bedrock mortars—about 1,185…
Jackson Square Historic District — San Francisco County, CA
Jackson Square Historic District is a historic district in San Francisco County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized f…
John Muir National Historic Site — Contra Costa County, CA
National Park Service unit in Martinez preserving the 1882–1914 home, orchards, and part of the fruit ranch of naturalist and conservationist John Muir — oft…
Keane Wonder Mine — Inyo County, CA
Death Valley gold camp (discovered 1903; boom 1907–1912) famous for a mile-long aerial tramway that dropped ore 1,500 ft from the upper mine to the mill. NPS…
Kelso Depot — San Bernardino County, CA
Restored 1924 Union Pacific Spanish-Revival depot that anchors Mojave National Preserve’s main visitor center in the ghost railroad town of Kelso. Exhibits c…
Knights Ferry — Stanislaus County, CA
Knights Ferry is a historic district in Stanislaus County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, recognized for significance in oth…
Kuchamaa — San Diego County, CA
Kuuchamaa (also Tecate Peak) is a sacred Kumeyaay mountain on the San Diego–Baja California border, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 199…
Laws Railroad Museum — Inyo County, CA
Preserved 1883 narrow-gauge depot and historic yard of the Carson & Colorado / Southern Pacific line at Laws, a few miles northeast of Bishop. Outdoor museum…
Lewiston Historic District — Trinity County, CA
Lewiston Historic District is a historic district in Trinity County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, recognized for significa…
Little Tokyo Historic District — Los Angeles County, CA
Little Tokyo Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, recognized for s…
Locke Historic District — Sacramento County, CA
Locke Historic District is a historic district in Sacramento County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized for significa…
Lost Horse Mine — Riverside County, CA
One of Joshua Tree National Park’s most successful historic gold mines (operated roughly 1893–1936; reported production over 9,000 ounces of gold). A maintai…
Ludlow — San Bernardino County, CA
Mojave Desert railroad and Route 66 settlement founded in 1882 as an Atlantic & Pacific water stop, later southern railhead for the Tonopah & Tidewater and n…
Malibu Historic District — Los Angeles County, CA
Malibu Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018, recognized for signifi…
Mammoth Consolidated Mine — Mono County, CA
A short interpretive trail at the Coldwater Creek trailhead in the Mammoth Lakes Basin leads to Arch Mahan’s 1927–1933 gold-mining camp, preserved by Inyo Na…
Manzanar National Historic Site — Inyo County, CA
NPS unit interpreting the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Manzanar War Relocation Center on the floor of Owens Valley. The visitor center, re…
Mar Vista Gardens — Los Angeles County, CA
Mar Vista Gardens is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018, recognized for significance i…
March Field Historic District — Riverside County, CA
March Field Historic District is a historic district in Riverside County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, recognized for sign…
Marl Spring — San Bernardino County, CA
Key water stop on the historic Mojave Road (Old Government Road) inside Mojave National Preserve — a sparse desert spring with concrete trough remains that s…
McCloud — Siskiyou County, CA
McCloud is a historic district in Siskiyou County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, recognized for significance in industry; c…
Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape — Tulare County, CA
Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape is a historic district in Tulare County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, recognized for …
Mono County Courthouse — Mono County, CA
Italianate county courthouse on Main Street in Bridgeport, completed in 1880 and still one of California’s oldest continuously operating county courthouses. …
Mono Mills — Mono County, CA
1880s lumber camp and sawmill that fed Bodie’s mines via the narrow-gauge Bodie & Benton Railway. At peak nearly 45,000 cords of wood per year left the Jeffr…
New Almaden — Santa Clara County, CA
New Almaden is a historic district in Santa Clara County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in indu…
New Helvetia Historic District — Sacramento County, CA
New Helvetia Historic District is a historic district in Sacramento County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, recognized for si…
Nipton — San Bernardino County, CA
Tiny Ivanpah Valley railroad town founded 1905 on the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad (later Union Pacific), on the NE edge of Mojave National Pr…
Oasis of Mara — San Bernardino County, CA
Native California fan palm oasis at the Joshua Tree National Park Oasis Visitor Center in Twentynine Palms—long used by Serrano and Chemehuevi peoples, later…
Old Plank Road — Imperial County, CA
Remnants of the 1915 wooden plank road that once carried early motorists eight-by-twelve-foot sections across the shifting Algodones (Imperial) Sand Dunes—Ca…
Old Town San Diego Historic District — San Diego County, CA
Old Town San Diego Historic District is a historic district in San Diego County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized f…
Point Fermin Historic District — Los Angeles County, CA
Point Fermin Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, recognized for s…
Point Richmond Historic District — Contra Costa County, CA
Point Richmond Historic District is a historic district in Contra Costa County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, recognized fo…
Poppy Peak Historic District — Los Angeles County, CA
Poppy Peak Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, recognized for sig…
Port Costa — Contra Costa County, CA
Tiny historic Carquinez Strait waterfront town that boomed in the late 19th century as a grain-shipping and rail transfer port opposite Benicia. Brick wareho…
Professorville Historic District — Santa Clara County, CA
Professorville Historic District is a historic district in Santa Clara County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, recognized for…
Robbers Roost — Kern County, CA
Jagged BLM rock formation (also Bandit Rock) in the Scodie Mountains overlooking Indian Wells Valley. 19th-century stage-route lookout associated with the Ti…
Rock Spring — San Bernardino County, CA
Reliable Mojave Road water stop inside Mojave National Preserve: Bert Smith’s 1929 Rock House, 1930s mill ruins, Camp Rock Spring army outpost site (1860s), …
Salvation Mountain — Imperial County, CA
Leonard Knight’s enormous adobe-and-paint folk-art mountain outside Niland proclaiming “God Is Love” — a public desert art landmark on the edge of Slab City …
Scotty's Castle — Death Valley, CA
Spanish Mediterranean mansion built in the 1920s by Chicago millionaire Albert Johnson. A 2015 flash flood buried a 1900s automobile in sediment and severely…
Shasta State Historic Park — Shasta County, CA
Shasta State Historic Park is a historic district in Shasta County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized for significan…
Smiley Park Historic District — San Bernardino County, CA
Smiley Park Historic District is a historic district in San Bernardino County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, recognized for…
South Pasadena Historic District — Los Angeles County, CA
South Pasadena Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, recognized for…
Teakettle Junction — Inyo County, CA
Iconic Death Valley road junction on the washboard Racetrack Valley Road where routes to the Racetrack Playa, Hunter Mountain, and Ubehebe meet. Visitors han…
Vallecito Stage Station — San Diego County, CA
Restored Butterfield Overland Mail and Southern Emigrant Trail stage station at a Colorado Desert oasis in Vallecito Valley, Anza-Borrego country. The site l…
View Park Historic District — Los Angeles County, CA
View Park Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016, recognized for sign…
Volcano — Amador County, CA
Picturesque Mother Lode gold town in a bowl-shaped valley (miners thought it a volcanic crater). Settled 1848–49 (Soldiers Gulch); by the 1850s a full camp w…
Walker Pass — Kern County, CA
National Historic Landmark and California Historical Landmark on SR-178 at the southern Sierra Crest (5,250 ft). Joseph R. Walker charted the pass in 1834; l…
Weaverville Historic District — Trinity County, CA
Weaverville Historic District is a historic district in Trinity County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized for signif…
Whitley Heights Historic District — Los Angeles County, CA
Whitley Heights Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, recognized fo…
Wildrose Charcoal Kilns — Inyo County, CA
Ten beehive-shaped stone kilns lined up in upper Wildrose Canyon inside Death Valley National Park—among the best-preserved charcoal kilns in the West. Built…
Yosemite Valley — Mariposa County, CA
Yosemite Valley is a historic district in Mariposa County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, recognized for significance in lan…
Zzyzx — San Bernardino County, CA
Desert health-spa resort built by radio evangelist Curtis Howe Springer from the 1940s on the shore of Soda Dry Lake, later reclaimed and operated as the Cal…

Arizona (57)

Agua Caliente — Maricopa County, AZ
Historic hot-springs settlement on the Maricopa–Yuma county line north of the Gila River near Hyder. Jesuit Jacobo Sedelmayr recorded Santa Maria del Agua Ca…
Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park — Gila County, AZ
Stabilized ~200-room Salado masonry pueblo (ca. 1225–1400 CE) on a ridge above Pinal Creek at Globe. City-run park and museum with self-guided pueblo walk — …
Biosphere 2 — Pinal County, AZ
University of Arizona research campus at Oracle built around the sealed glass-and-steel Biosphere 2 structure — the famous early-1990s closed-system living e…
Bisbee Historic District — Cochise County, AZ
Bisbee Historic District is a historic district in Cochise County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, recognized for significanc…
Brigham City — Navajo County, AZ
Short-lived 1870s Mormon colony on the Little Colorado River near present-day Winslow—one of several United Order settlements that struggled with flooding, i…
Camp Bouse — La Paz County, AZ
Desert Training Center WWII secret camp in Butler Valley east of Bouse where ~5,500 volunteers of the 9th Tank Group trained with Canal Defense Light (CDL) ‘…
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument — Pinal County, AZ
National monument in Coolidge preserving a Classic Period Hohokam (ancestral Sonoran Desert people) compound and the four-story caliche “Great House” (Siwañ …
Casa Malpais Archaeological Park — Apache County, AZ
National Historic Landmark Mogollon pueblo (~AD 1260–1400) built on basalt cliffs of the Springerville volcanic field. Features a volcanic-rock Great Kiva, m…
Clifton Chase Creek Historic District — Greenlee County, AZ
Living early copper-camp county seat squeezed into the San Francisco River canyon below Morenci: narrow Chase Creek Street retains late-19th/early-20th-centu…
Columbine Visitor Center — Graham County, AZ
Civilian Conservation Corps–era USFS Columbine Ranger Station residence (c. 1935) on Mount Graham’s Swift Trail (AZ 366), now Coronado National Forest visito…
Congress — Yavapai County, AZ
Gold-mining center for the Congress Mine (discovered 1884; major production into the 1930s) west of Wickenburg. The Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway se…
Coolidge Dam — Gila County, AZ
Multiple-dome concrete dam completed in 1928 on the Gila River, named for President Calvin Coolidge and built to store irrigation water for the San Carlos Pr…
Coronado National Memorial — Cochise County, AZ
National Park Service memorial on the southeast flank of the Huachuca Mountains at the U.S.–Mexico border, commemorating Francisco Vásquez de Coronado’s 1540…
Douglas Historic District — Cochise County, AZ
Douglas Historic District is a historic district in Cochise County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, recognized for significan…
Duncan Historic District — Greenlee County, AZ
Upper Gila Valley farm-and-rail town near the New Mexico line whose surviving commercial and residential streetscape records Greenlee’s non-Morenci mining-an…
Ehrenberg — La Paz County, AZ
Colorado River landing and supply town opposite the California shore, a late-nineteenth-century freight hub later bypassed by rail and highways. Historic pin…
Empire Ranch Headquarters — Pima County, AZ
Historic cattle-ranch headquarters (1870s onward) at the heart of Las Cienegas National Conservation Area southeast of Tucson. Adobe and board-and-batten bui…
Fort Apache Historic District — Navajo County, AZ
Fort Apache Historic District is a historic district in Navajo County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, recognized for signifi…
Fort Bowie National Historic Site — Cochise County, AZ
National Park Service hike-in historic site at Apache Pass preserving adobe ruins of the 1860s–1894 U.S. Army post that guarded the pass, Butterfield Stage r…
Fort Tuthill Historic District — Coconino County, AZ
Fort Tuthill Historic District is a historic district in Coconino County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, recognized for sign…
Fort Verde State Historic Park — Yavapai County, AZ
Best-preserved Indian Wars–era U.S. Army fort in Arizona, in Camp Verde. Original 1870s–1880s officers’ quarters and administration building house furnished …
Franklin — Greenlee County, AZ
Small Gila Valley farm settlement a few miles south of Duncan, founded by Mormon pioneers in the 1890s along the river bottom near the New Mexico line. Survi…
Hackberry — Mohave County, AZ
Former Music Mountains silver camp that became a Route 66 service stop northeast of Kingman. Nearly abandoned after Interstate 40 bypassed the corridor, it r…
Harquahala Peak Observatory — La Paz County, AZ
Ruins of a 1920s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory solar-radiation station on the 5,681-ft summit of Harquahala Mountain—highest peak in southwestern Ari…
Heliograph Peak — Graham County, AZ
10,022-ft peak on the Swift Trail (AZ-366) in the Pinaleño Mountains with a CCC-era 100-ft fire lookout still used in fire season. Named for late-1880s U.S. …
Hi Jolly Monument — La Paz County, AZ
National Register pyramid tomb of Hadji Ali (“Hi Jolly”), Syrian-born camel driver for the 1850s U.S. Army Camel Corps experiment, in Quartzsite’s pioneer ce…
Homolovi State Park — Navajo County, AZ
Ancestral Hopi pueblo cluster on the Little Colorado River floodplain just north of Winslow — Homol’ovi, “Place of the Little Hills.” Four main villages occu…
Hospital Flat Campground — Graham County, AZ
High meadow campground on Mount Graham’s Swift Trail (AZ 366) named for the 1880s U.S. Army field hospital that treated ailing Fort Grant soldiers and later …
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site — Apache County, AZ
Oldest continuously operated trading post on the Navajo Nation (est. 1878 by John Lorenzo Hubbell) at Ganado, preserved as an NPS national historic site and …
Lees Ferry — Coconino County, AZ
Historic Colorado River crossing and the operational start of Grand Canyon river trips inside Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Lonely Dell Ranch, ferry-…
McFarland State Historic Park — Pinal County, AZ
Arizona State Parks museum in Florence preserving the 1878 adobe-and-timber Pinal County courthouse and later structures tied to territorial justice and U.S.…
Montezuma Castle National Monument — Yavapai County, AZ
Iconic five-story Southern Sinagua cliff dwelling (~20 rooms) set ~90 ft up a limestone alcove above Beaver Creek in the Verde Valley—one of the best-preserv…
Morenci Mine Overlook — Greenlee County, AZ
Public highway overlook on US 191 above Freeport-McMoRan’s Morenci operation—one of North America’s largest open-pit copper mines and the modern successor to…
Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center — Coconino County, AZ
Twin steel-arch spans over Marble Canyon on US 89A— the 1929 historic bridge is now a pedestrian walkway 467 ft above the Colorado River, with a Glen Canyon …
Navajo National Monument (Betatakin Overlook) — Navajo County, AZ
Free NPS unit on the Navajo Nation protecting Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in Tsegi Canyon country. The paved Sandal Trail from the visitor center ends…
Painted Desert Inn — Apache County, AZ
National Historic Landmark pueblo-revival lodge on the Painted Desert rim inside Petrified Forest National Park. Originally a 1920s tourist inn later redesig…
Pipe Spring National Monument — Mohave County, AZ
Desert oasis fort (Winsor Castle) on the Arizona Strip where perennial spring water supported Ancestral Puebloans, Kaibab Paiute, and 19th-century Mormon ran…
Poston Butte — Pinal County, AZ
Small desert butte above Florence capped by a stone pyramid tomb for Charles D. Poston—'Father of Arizona'—who promoted the Arizona Territory and is buried o…
Poston Memorial Monument — La Paz County, AZ
Outdoor memorial on the Colorado River Indian Reservation south of Parker marking the Poston War Relocation Center—the largest of the WWII WRA camps by area,…
Powers Garden — Graham County, AZ
Remote pioneer ranch/mining homestead in Rattlesnake Canyon of the Galiuro Wilderness—Power family ranch and garden core with surviving small house fabric, r…
Sears-Kay Ruin — Maricopa County, AZ
Free Tonto National Forest interpretive site north of Carefree: a hilltop Hohokam fortification (~1050–1200 CE) with masonry room blocks and panoramic desert…
Shoofly Village Ruins — Gila County, AZ
Tonto National Forest day-use archaeological site north of Payson: a ~3.75-acre Pre-Columbian village (ca. A.D. 1000–1250) with rock wall outlines of about 7…
Snaketown — Pinal County, AZ
Hohokam ancestral village site (NHL 1964, NRHP) excavated and deliberately backfilled; CLOSED to the public on Gila River Indian Community land with no visit…
Theodore Roosevelt Dam — Gila County, AZ
Flagship Reclamation-era dam (dedicated 1911) on the Salt River that created Roosevelt Lake and underwrote the Salt River Project’s Phoenix valley agricultur…
Titan Missile Museum — Pima County, AZ
Sole remaining Titan II ICBM complex open to the public (former site 571-7), a National Historic Landmark south of Tucson. Guided underground tours visit the…
Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park — Cochise County, AZ
1882 Victorian red-brick courthouse that served as Cochise County seat through Tombstone’s silver boom and the era of the OK Corral. Now an Arizona State Par…
Tonto National Monument — Gila County, AZ
National Park Service monument above Roosevelt Lake protecting well-preserved 13th–15th century Salado cliff dwellings in the Sonoran Desert fringe of the Su…
Tortilla Flat — Maricopa County, AZ
Last surviving stagecoach stop on the historic Apache Trail (SR-88) deep in the Superstition Mountains. Grew from a prospector camp into a Roosevelt Dam frei…
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park — Santa Cruz County, AZ
Arizona’s oldest Spanish presidio site (San Ignacio de Tubac, founded 1752) with excavated foundations, 1885 schoolhouse, museum, and Juan Bautista de Anza N…
Tumacácori National Historical Park — Santa Cruz County, AZ
National Historical Park preserving Spanish colonial mission ruins on the Santa Cruz River — Mission San José de Tumacácori (Jesuit founding 1691; present ch…
Tuzigoot National Monument — Yavapai County, AZ
National Park Service monument protecting a Sinagua pueblo crowning a Verde Valley limestone ridge above the river and Tavasci Marsh. Self-guided paths climb…
Valley of the Moon — Pima County, AZ
Valley of the Moon is a historic district in Pima County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, recognized for significance in arch…
Walnut Canyon National Monument — Coconino County, AZ
National Park Service monument southeast of Flagstaff preserving Sinagua cliff dwellings (roughly 1100–1250 CE) tucked into limestone alcoves of a 350-foot-d…
Warren Historic District — Cochise County, AZ
Warren Historic District is a historic district in Cochise County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025, recognized for significanc…
Windsor Square Historic District — Maricopa County, AZ
Windsor Square Historic District is a historic district in Maricopa County, AZ, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, recognized for si…
Wupatki National Monument — Coconino County, AZ
NPS monument protecting multi-story Sinagua/Ancestral Pueblo masonry pueblos (Wupatki Pueblo 100+ rooms, Wukoki, Citadel) on volcanic ash-enriched desert gra…
Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park — Yuma County, AZ
Arizona Territory’s infamous prison (1876–1909) on a bluff above the Colorado River in Yuma. Stone and adobe cellblocks, the main gate, guard tower, and muse…

Utah (56)

American Fork Historic District — Utah County, UT
American Fork Historic District is a historic district in Utah County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, recognized for signifi…
Black Rock Site — Tooele County, UT
Black Rock Site is a historic site in Tooele County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, recognized for significance in entertain…
Bluff Historic District — San Juan County, UT
Bluff Historic District is a historic district in San Juan County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, recognized for significanc…
Bountiful Historic District — Davis County, UT
Bountiful Historic District is a historic district in Davis County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, recognized for significan…
Brigham City Historic District — Box Elder County, UT
Brigham City Historic District is a historic district in Box Elder County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023, recognized for sig…
Bullion Canyon Miners Park — Piute County, UT
Self-guided Forest Service interpretive stop in the “Canyon of Gold” above Marysvale, with mining equipment displays, a short historical trail, and access to…
Capitol Hill Historic District — Salt Lake County, UT
Capitol Hill Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, recognized for sig…
Cedar City Historic District — Iron County, UT
Cedar City Historic District is a historic district in Iron County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, recognized for significan…
Copperton Historic District — Salt Lake County, UT
Copperton Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, recognized for signif…
Cove Fort — Millard County, UT
Restored 1867 volcanic-rock fort at the I-15 / I-70 junction, built for Brigham Young by Ira Hinckley as a Mormon Road way station, stage stop, and Deseret T…
Dance Hall Rock — Kane County, UT
A large Navajo Sandstone amphitheater on the Hole-in-the-Rock Road where 1879 San Juan Expedition pioneers held dances and meetings while waiting for the rou…
Dewey — Grand County, UT
Colorado River crossing and thin settlement at Dewey Bridge country northeast of Moab, where a historic suspension span once linked the river road. Field pin…
Emigration Canyon — Salt Lake County, UT
Emigration Canyon is a historic site in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in expl…
Escalante Historic District — Garfield County, UT
Escalante Historic District is a historic district in Garfield County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, recognized for signifi…
Eureka Historic District UT — Juab County, UT
Eureka Historic District is a historic district in Juab County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, recognized for significance i…
Farmington Main Street Historic District — Davis County, UT
National Register historic district (listed 2011, NRIS 11000756) along Farmington’s Main Street corridor — roughly 200 South to 600 North — with 66 contribut…
Fielding Garr Ranch — Davis County, UT
Oldest continuously operated ranch in Utah, founded 1848 on the southeast shore of Antelope Island and listed on the National Register. Adobe ranch house, ba…
Fiftymile Spring — Kane County, UT
Named spring and Hole-in-the-Rock Trail camp on Hole-in-the-Rock Road in Grand Staircase–Escalante / Glen Canyon country. After Forty Mile Spring, Mormon pio…
Flaming Gorge Dam — Daggett County, UT
502-foot Bureau of Reclamation thin-arch dam on the Green River (completed 1964) that created Flaming Gorge Reservoir as part of the Colorado River Storage P…
Forest Dale Historic District — Salt Lake County, UT
Forest Dale Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, recognized for sign…
Fort Deseret — Millard County, UT
Adobe fort built in 1865–66 during Utah’s Black Hawk War to protect Deseret-area settlers. Remains of the ~550-foot-square fort with original 10-foot mud wal…
Fremont Indian State Park — Sevier County, UT
Utah State Park and museum in Clear Creek Canyon (I-70 Exit 17) created to preserve Fremont-culture archaeology and rock art exposed during interstate constr…
Golden Spike National Historical Park — Box Elder County, UT
National Park Service unit at Promontory Summit marking the 10 May 1869 completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Restored grade, replica Jupiter an…
Hermit's Cabin (Marjum Canyon) — Millard County, UT
BLM-managed rock house built by World War I veteran Bob Stinson into a limestone alcove in Marjum Canyon, House Range. Stinson walled the cave mouth with loc…
Hite — Garfield County, UT
Historic Colorado River ferry and supply settlement at the mouth of White Canyon, later inundated as Lake Powell rose. Cass Hite’s river landing and the mid-…
Hole-in-the-Rock — San Juan County, UT
Site where the 1879 San Juan Expedition lowered wagons through a cleft in the Glen Canyon rim to the Colorado River. Rough Hole-in-the-Rock Road reaches the …
Hovenweep National Monument (Square Tower Group) — San Juan County, UT
NPS unit preserving Ancestral Puebloan masonry towers and room blocks (c. 1200–1300 CE) around Little Ruin Canyon on Cajon Mesa. Square Tower Group is the mo…
Hurricane Canal — Washington County, UT
Hurricane Canal is a historic structure in Washington County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, recognized for significance in …
John Jarvie Historic Ranch — Daggett County, UT
BLM-managed historic ranch district on the Green River in Browns Park—1880s store and ranch of Scotsman John Jarvie, a supply point for travelers and outlaw-…
John Wesley Powell River History Museum — Emery County, UT
Riverside museum in Green River interpreting John Wesley Powell’s 1869 and 1871 Colorado River expeditions and the river history of the Green and Colorado. I…
Johnson Canyon Gunsmoke Movie Set — Kane County, UT
Roadside remnant of the long-running Johnson Canyon western film ranch outside Kanab, used for outdoor sequences of Gunsmoke and other Hollywood westerns. Di…
Moki Dugway — San Juan County, UT
Three miles of steep unpaved switchbacks on Utah Highway 261 carved into the face of Cedar Mesa, dropping about 1,100–1,200 ft at roughly 11% grade above Val…
Morgan Historic District — Morgan County, UT
Morgan Historic District is a historic district in Morgan County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022, recognized for significance…
Newton Reservoir — Cache County, UT
Newton Reservoir is a historic site in Cache County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for significance in agricultu…
Oak Creek Historic District — Washington County, UT
Oak Creek Historic District is a historic district in Washington County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, recognized for signi…
Ophir — Tooele County, UT
Silver–lead–zinc mining canyon town in the Oquirrh Mountains of Tooele County, founded about 1870 and named for the biblical source of Solomon’s gold. Peak c…
Panguitch Historic District — Garfield County, UT
Panguitch Historic District is a historic district in Garfield County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, recognized for signifi…
Payson Historic District — Utah County, UT
Payson Historic District is a historic district in Utah County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, recognized for significance i…
Pleasant Grove Historic District — Utah County, UT
Pleasant Grove Historic District is a historic district in Utah County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, recognized for signif…
Providence Historic District — Cache County, UT
Providence Historic District is a historic district in Cache County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, recognized for significa…
Riverton Historic District — Salt Lake County, UT
Riverton Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, recognized for signifi…
Simpson Springs — Tooele County, UT
Key West Desert watering hole and Pony Express / Overland Stage station site on the Pony Express National Historic Trail. Named for Capt. James H. Simpson’s …
Soldier Summit — Wasatch County, UT
High railroad summit settlement on the divide between Utah Valley and Price Canyon—once a helper-engine, section-crew, and traveler stop on the Rio Grande ma…
Spiral Jetty — Box Elder County, UT
Robert Smithson’s 1970 land-art earthwork on Rozel Point: a 1,500-foot coil of basalt and earth winding into Great Salt Lake’s north arm. Stewarded by Dia Ar…
Springville Historic District — Utah County, UT
Springville Historic District is a historic district in Utah County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, recognized for significa…
Sun Tunnels — Box Elder County, UT
Nancy Holt’s 1973–76 Land Art installation: four large concrete tunnels in an open X on the Great Basin Desert floor SE of Lucin, aligned to the solstice sun…
Swett Ranch — Daggett County, UT
USFS-interpreted 1909–1960s homestead on the Greendale benches of Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area (Ashley National Forest). Oscar and Emma Swett ran a…
Temple Mountain Mining District — Emery County, UT
Cold War–era uranium mining townsite and district on the southeast flank of the San Rafael Swell. BLM Temple Mountain Townsite campground sits at Temple Wash…
Thompson Springs — Grand County, UT
Railroad and highway service town east of Green River on the Book Cliffs front, long a staging point for the Sego Canyon coal branch and later I-70 travelers…
Topaz Internment Camp — Millard County, UT
National Historic Landmark site of the WWII Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz), where over 11,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated 1942–1945 on the S…
Tremonton Historic District — Box Elder County, UT
Tremonton Historic District is a historic district in Box Elder County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, recognized for signif…
Wells Historic District — Salt Lake County, UT
Wells Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, recognized for significan…
Westmoreland Place Historic District — Salt Lake County, UT
Westmoreland Place Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, recognized f…
Westwood Village Historic District — Salt Lake County, UT
Westwood Village Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024, recognized for…
Willard Historic District — Box Elder County, UT
Willard Historic District is a historic district in Box Elder County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, recognized for signific…
Zion Lodge Historic District — Washington County, UT
Zion Lodge Historic District is a historic district in Washington County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, recognized for sign…

New Mexico (74)

Abó Ruins (Salinas Pueblo Missions) — Torrance County, NM
Western unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument: red-sandstone mission church and convento of San Gregorio de Abó beside ancestral Pueblo mound rem…
Acoma Sky City — Cibola County, NM
Haak'u — Sky City — is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America, a mesa-top pueblo of adobe houses, kivas, and the San Esteban d…
Acoma–Zuni Trailhead (NM 117) — Cibola County, NM
East trailhead for the cairned ancestral footpath linking Acoma and Zuni pueblos across El Malpais National Monument lava—about 7.5 miles one-way to the NM-5…
Aztec Ruins National Monument — San Juan County, NM
Ancestral Pueblo great-house community along the Animas River in the modern city of Aztec. Self-guided half-mile trail through Aztec West (400+ rooms at peak…
Bandelier National Monument — Sandoval County, NM
National Park Service monument protecting Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings, cavates, and pueblo ruins along Cañon de los Frijoles on the Pajarito Plateau. Ma…
Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark — Roosevelt County, NM
Type locality of the Clovis culture (Blackwater Locality No. 1 / Anderson Basin)—stratified Late Pleistocene spring deposits where fluted Clovis points were …
Bosque Redondo Memorial — De Baca County, NM
State historic site and memorial at Fort Sumner interpreting the 1863–1868 Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation—the Long Walk of the Diné (Navajo) and internmen…
Chaco Culture National Historical Park — San Juan County, NM
UNESCO World Heritage center of Ancestral Puebloan great-house architecture (c. 850–1250 CE) in a remote high-desert canyon. Pueblo Bonito alone holds ~800 r…
Coronado Historic Site — Sandoval County, NM
Tiwa pueblo of Kuaua (“evergreen”) on the Rio Grande west of Bernalillo—settled ~AD 1325, occupied when Coronado’s 1540 entrada entered the valley. Reconstru…
Cuchillo — Sierra County, NM
Small Cuchillo Negro Creek settlement west of Elephant Butte country that long served ranch and road traffic between the Black Range foothills and the Rio Gr…
Datil Well Recreation Area — Catron County, NM
BLM campground and day-use area at one of the historic water wells along the Magdalena Livestock Driveway (the old cattle trail from western ranges to the ra…
Duran Historic District — Torrance County, NM
Duran Historic District is a historic district in Torrance County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, recognized for significanc…
El Morro National Monument — Cibola County, NM
Sandstone cuesta and perennial pool where ancestral Puebloans, Spanish travelers, and American soldiers carved names and messages—Inscription Rock—beside the…
El Porvenir Community Ditch — Rio Arriba County, NM
El Porvenir Community Ditch is a historic structure in Rio Arriba County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, recognized for sign…
Embudo Historic District — Rio Arriba County, NM
Embudo Historic District is a historic district in Rio Arriba County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, recognized for signific…
Engle — Sierra County, NM
Railroad and ranch service point east of Elephant Butte on the Jornada del Muerto fringe, a thin historic place for desert rail geography. Distinct from Elep…
Folsom — Union County, NM
Near-ghost village in Union County (2020 population 51) that lends its name to the Folsom Paleo-Indian tradition. A railroad town after 1888, devastated by t…
Fort Bayard Historic District — Grant County, NM
National Historic Landmark district east of Silver City established in 1866—home post for Buffalo Soldier cavalry and later a pioneering Army tuberculosis ho…
Fort Craig Historic Site — Socorro County, NM
One of the largest 19th-century frontier forts on the Rio Grande, established 1854. Self-guided trail through adobe ruins, parade ground, and cemetery interp…
Fort Cummings — Luna County, NM
U.S. Army post (1863–1873, later reoccupations) guarding Cooke's Spring and the Butterfield Overland Mail route at the foot of Cookes Peak. Adobe wall remnan…
Fort Selden Historic Site — Doña Ana County, NM
New Mexico Historic Site preserving adobe ruins of the 1865–1891 U.S. Army post that guarded the Mesilla Valley and El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. Buffalo…
Fort Stanton Historic Site — Lincoln County, NM
One of the most intact 19th-century frontier posts in the Southwest: 240 acres and ~88 stone buildings (officers’ row, barracks, hospital, chapel, stables) s…
Fort Union National Monument — Mora County, NM
Three successive U.S. Army forts (1851–1891) on the Santa Fe Trail near Watrous — once the largest military depot in the Southwest. Adobe walls, star fort ea…
Fort Wingate Historic District — McKinley County, NM
Fort Wingate Historic District is a historic district in McKinley County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, recognized for sign…
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument — Catron County, NM
Mogollon (Southern Ancestral Pueblo) cliff dwellings built in natural caves above Cliff Dweller Creek in the late 1200s. A short loop trail climbs to five ca…
Hillsboro — Sierra County, NM
Black Range foothill mining town founded 1877 after gold strikes at the Opportunity and Ready Pay mines along Percha Creek. Once Sierra County seat with cour…
Isleta Pueblo — Bernalillo County, NM
Isleta Pueblo is a historic district in Bernalillo County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, recognized for significance in agr…
Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array — Socorro County, NM
Iconic radio astronomy observatory of twenty-seven 82-foot dish antennas in a Y-shaped array on the high desert Plains of San Agustin west of Socorro. Public…
La Cueva Historic District — Mora County, NM
La Cueva Historic District is a historic district in Mora County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for significance…
La Lande — De Baca County, NM
Eastern New Mexico railroad hamlet on the former Belen Cutoff / Transcontinental corridor east of Fort Sumner. La Lande grew as a section and stock-shipping …
La Luz Historic District — Otero County, NM
La Luz Historic District is a historic district in Otero County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, recognized for significance …
La Puente Historic District — Rio Arriba County, NM
La Puente Historic District is a historic district in Rio Arriba County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, recognized for signi…
Lincoln Historic Site — Lincoln County, NM
New Mexico’s most-visited state historic site preserves most of the main street of 1870s–1880s Lincoln — epicenter of the Lincoln County War and Billy the Ki…
Los Griegos Historic District — Bernalillo County, NM
Los Griegos Historic District is a historic district in Bernalillo County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, recognized for sig…
Lower Animas Ditch — San Juan County, NM
Lower Animas Ditch is a historic structure in San Juan County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, recognized for significance in…
Madrid — Santa Fe County, NM
Former company coal town on the Turquoise Trail (NM-14) between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Once a company-controlled camp famous for massive holiday light dis…
Magdalena — Socorro County, NM
Living historic mining and stock-shipping town at the foot of the Magdalena Mountains, once the railhead for the Kelly mining district and a major cattle-dri…
Mesilla Park Historic District — Dona Ana County, NM
Mesilla Park Historic District is a historic district in Dona Ana County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016, recognized for sign…
Montoya — Quay County, NM
Route 66 and railroad community in Quay County founded in 1902 as a loading point. Visitor interest centers on the Richardson Store (National Register) and r…
New Mexico Mining Museum — Cibola County, NM
City of Grants museum interpreting the Grants uranium belt and broader New Mexico hard-rock mining, highlighted by a walk-through underground mine exhibit. C…
Old Mesilla Plaza — Doña Ana County, NM
Territorial plaza of historic Mesilla, once capital of the Confederate Territory of Arizona and a Butterfield Overland Mail stop. Adobe church of San Albino …
Oliver Lee Memorial State Park — Otero County, NM
Chihuahuan Desert state park at the mouth of Dog Canyon on the west escarpment of the Sacramento Mountains south of Alamogordo. Preserves Oliver Milton Lee’s…
Otowi Historic District — Santa Fe County, NM
Otowi Historic District is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, recognized for significanc…
Pancho Villa State Park — Luna County, NM
Border-town state park in Columbus preserving Camp Furlong remnants and the National Historic Landmark story of Pancho Villa’s 9 March 1916 raid—the last maj…
Pecos National Historical Park — San Miguel County, NM
NPS historical park preserving Cicuye/Pecos Pueblo (once a multi-story trade hub of 2,000+ people), the Spanish mission church ruins, Forked Lightning Ranch,…
Picuris Pueblo — Taos County, NM
Picuris Pueblo is a historic district in Taos County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, recognized for significance in agricult…
Pie Town — Catron County, NM
High-country hamlet on U.S. 60 in Catron County, known for pie cafes, Continental Divide Trail resupply, and Russell Lee’s 1940 Farm Security Administration …
Point of Rocks Historic District — Colfax County, NM
Point of Rocks Historic District is a historic district in Colfax County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, recognized for sign…
Posi-Ouinge Recreation Area — Rio Arriba County, NM
BLM-managed ancestral Tewa pueblo ruins (Posi-ouinge) on a mesa above Ojo Caliente, with a short public trail (~1 mi RT) to roomblock mounds and interpretive…
Puerto de Luna — Guadalupe County, NM
Pecos River valley settlement south of Santa Rosa, a historic Hispanic community and county-seat era place along the river corridor. Historic pin for valley …
Quarai Ruins (Salinas Pueblo Missions) — Torrance County, NM
NPS unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument north of Mountainair preserving a Southern Tiwa pueblo occupied from about A.D. 1300 and the red-sandst…
Raton Pass — Colfax County, NM
Raton Pass is a historic site in Colfax County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in commerce; mili…
Route 66 and National Old Trails Road Historic Distric at La Bajada — Santa Fe County, NM
Route 66 and National Old Trails Road Historic Distric at La Bajada is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Histori…
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (Gran Quivira) — Torrance County, NM
Largest of the three Salinas Pueblo Missions units: ancestral Pueblo rooms and the massive limestone walls of San Buenaventura and San Isidro mission churche…
Salmon Ruins — San Juan County, NM
Chacoan great-house pueblo built ~1090 CE on a San Juan River terrace west of Bloomfield—originally 275–300 rooms with an elevated tower kiva and plaza great…
San Geronimo Historic District — San Miguel County, NM
San Geronimo Historic District is a historic district in San Miguel County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, recognized for si…
San Ildefonso Pueblo — Santa Fe County, NM
San Ildefonso Pueblo is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, recognized for significance i…
San Juan Historic District — Grant County, NM
San Juan Historic District is a historic district in Grant County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, recognized for significanc…
San Lorenzo Historic District — Grant County, NM
San Lorenzo Historic District is a historic district in Grant County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, recognized for signific…
San Miguel del Vado — San Miguel County, NM
Spanish colonial plaza village and Pecos River ford that anchored the San Miguel del Vado Land Grant (1794) and later the Santa Fe Trail corridor south of La…
San Rafael (Ojo del Gallo) — Cibola County, NM
Historic Hispanic village of San Rafael (formerly El Gallo) at Ojo del Gallo spring south of Grants on the malpais edge—site of the first Fort Wingate (1862)…
Santa Fe Historic District — Santa Fe County, NM
Santa Fe Historic District is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for signific…
Seton Village — Santa Fe County, NM
Seton Village is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in art; …
Silver City Historic District — Grant County, NM
Silver City Historic District is a historic district in Grant County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, recognized for signific…
Smokey Bear Historical Park — Lincoln County, NM
State historic park in Capitan commemorating the real Smokey Bear cub rescued from the 1950 Capitan Gap fire in the Lincoln National Forest. Museum exhibits,…
Sunspot Solar Observatory Visitor Center — Otero County, NM
Public visitor center at the end of the Sunspot Scenic Byway (NM-6563) on Sacramento Peak (~9,200 ft) serving the historic National Solar Observatory / Sunsp…
Taiban — De Baca County, NM
Near-ghost railroad hamlet on the eastern De Baca plains at the base of Taiban Peak country, a Belen Cutoff / eastern New Mexico rail-era stop that dwindled …
Taos Pueblo — Taos County, NM
Taos Pueblo is a historic district in Taos County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in native amer…
Tierra Amarilla Community Ditch — Rio Arriba County, NM
Tierra Amarilla Community Ditch is a historic structure in Rio Arriba County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, recognized for …
Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site — Bernalillo County, NM
Fourteenth-century Ancestral Pueblo village (~200 rooms in a U-shaped layout with a large central kiva) behind the Sandia Ranger Station on NM 337 in Tijeras…
Wagon Mound — Mora County, NM
Isolated volcanic butte and National Historic Landmark on the Santa Fe Trail’s Cimarron Cutoff—the last great trail landmark before travelers reached the mou…
Watrous — Mora County, NM
Watrous is a historic district in Mora County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in commerce; trans…
Winston — Sierra County, NM
Quiet Black Range mining-era settlement on NM 52 that still anchors the Pioneer Store Museum—an intact late-1800s mercantile stocked with period goods. Winst…
Yeso — De Baca County, NM
Sparsely occupied high-plains railroad and ranch settlement on the US 60 corridor in western De Baca County, gazetted as a populated place and emblematic of …