Technically I didn’t visit the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It wasn’t officially established until two weeks after I was in town.
Casa Rinconcada is an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s located on the nine-mile loop road through the park about six miles from the visitor center.
Pueblo del Arroyo is an Ancestral Puebloan great house at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s located on a short dead-end road off the nine-mile loop drive, just past Pueblo Bonito. The site is 5 ½ miles from the visitor center.
Pueblo Bonito is an Ancestral Puebloan great house at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It sits in the middle of the nine-mile loop road through the park.
Chetro Ketl is an Ancestral Puebloan great house at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s the second great house on the nine-mile loop road through the park.
Hungo Pavi is an Ancestral Puebloan great house at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s the first great house on the nine-mile loop road in the park, and is two miles from the visitor center.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, located in northwest New Mexico, protects several Ancestral Puebloan great houses populated between 850 and 1250. The park is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
On May 10, 1869, in the middle of the desert at Promontory Summit in Utah Territory, Leland Stanford drove the last spike to complete the First Transcontinental Railroad. Although the tracks have been removed and the trains no longer pass by Promontory Summit, the location where the Golden Spike was driven is celebrated by the National Park Service for its significance in American history.