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    New Mexico Mining Museum

    4.8 (10 reviews)
    Closed 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

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    Sharon B.

    Give yourself over an hour to tour the museum and watch the documentaries. Very cool. You take an elevator down to a mineshaft and you get to experience some of what it was like for the uranium miners of Grants past. Cheap and educational fun!

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    Terrific museum with an outstanding replica of a uranium mine in the basement.

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    Acoma Pueblo - Dramatic vistas everywhere.

    Acoma Pueblo

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    Don't bother. The "pueblo" is just a bunch of mis-matched houses patched with modern materials like…read morevinyl windows, concrete blocks, bricks, and tar paper. Window air conditioning units abound. Cars are parked willy-nilly everywhere so there is no way to take a decent photo. The tour was supposed to be at least 45 minutes but the tour guide (not very informative) was shooing us back onto the bus at 25 minutes. The history of the pueblo is interesting but the present-day reality, not so much. Serious disappointment.

    The most striking of the Pueblo villages, and perhaps the oldest continuously occupied community in…read morethe USA, is Acoma Pueblo, and more particularly, Sky City. 60 miles west of Albuquerque, N.M., the "People of the White Rock," first established their adobe homes atop this isolated butte 360 feet above the arid plain below sometime in the 12th Century, long before the invading Conquistadors in the 16th Century. A perfect fortress against marauders, the few thousand locals who worked the land below and maintained the hidden stairways and tunnels to the 70 flat acres above, were prosperous farmers and traders with indigenous groups as far away as the Aztec and Mayans in Central America, with established trails from ocean to ocean. For anyone who has visited Israel and climbed Masada overlooking the Dead Sea, Acoma Sky City feels like a brother citadel. The climb is not as long, but the sense of history and humanity is as powerful. You can now take a motorized vehicle to the summit, but that would be cheating you out of a most challenging and unique experience. Go on foot, from narrow stone step to the next; grabbing handholds where strategically placed, and duck down to squeeze through narrow vertical shafts to the next level, until emerging on top where ancient adobe homes and wide dusty plaza greet you. Walk around allowing your imagination to return you to the 14th Century when Acoma was a center of civilization, and you could see 100 miles in all directions from the rim.

    Casa Malpais Archaeology Park and Museum - Coyote crosses at dusk in front of camera at the Casa Malpais National Landmark

    Casa Malpais Archaeology Park and Museum

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    My husband & I participated in the tour of Casa Malpais. All we can say is, WOW!! What a hidden…read moretreasure! How come we never heard of this amazing site before?!?! Our tour guide, John, was fantastic. He shared facts mixed in with humor and theories of these ancient people. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

    The Casa Malpais museum is in the Springerville Heritage Center. There are 4 museums in the center…read more Admission to Casa Malpais museum is free. It is a small museum with beautiful artifacts from the Casa Malpais site. Museum hours are Monday-Saturday, 8 am-4 pm (year-round). Site Tours run Tuesday - Saturday from March through November. Tour Times are 9 am & 1 pm-weather permitting. There is a limit of 14 people per tour. You go to the site in a van because they have it closed to protect the site because it's locked to protect the site. Tours are closed on some holidays and there are some sold out dates. Check the website or call for specifics. We took the tour which starts at the museum with a film explaining the site and has and introduction by Hopi and Zuni elders. It explains what will happen on the tour and what you need (good hiking shoes, hat and water. The fee for the tour is $10 for adults, $8.00 for seniors and $5.00 for youth under 18 yrs old. Jeff Fisher did our tour. He was a wealth of knowledge about the site and gave us so much information. We really enjoyed it and you can really tell he cares about the site. He helped us imagine how life was at the site. The site includes an astronomical calendar, a great kiva, ancient stairways and rock art from the Mogollon culture. The hike is about a mile going uphill 150 feet in elevation (though it seemed much more) and includes some steep, rocky sections. The tour takes approximately 2 to 2.5 hours to complete. I highly recommend this tour. We have already planned on returning next year.

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