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Western New Mexico University Museum
Check pricesUniversity museum on the Western New Mexico University campus in Silver City, focused on Southwest cultural heritage and university history.
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Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Walk a one-mile loop trail up Cliff Dweller Canyon and step inside cave rooms built by Mogollon people in the late 1200s.
26 Jim Bradford Trail · Silver City, NM
About Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
About 45 miles north of Silver City on NM 15, this monument protects rooms that Tularosa Phase Mogollon people built inside natural caves in the late 1200s. A one-mile loop trail climbs Cliff Dweller Canyon and leads you into the caves, where archaeologists have identified 46 rooms. Tree-ring dating shows the timbers were cut between 1276 and 1287. The visitor center museum displays Mogollon and Apache artifacts.
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