Hiking Highlight
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In the 20th century, Ghost Ranch was the summer home and studio of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as the subject of many of her paintings. It often serves as a location for movie production. Ghost Ranch is owned by the Presbyterian Church (USA) and leased to and managed by The National Ghost Ranch Foundation.
Ghost Ranch is known for a remarkable concentration of fossils, most notably that of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis, of which it has been estimated that nearly a thousand individuals have been preserved in a quarry at Ghost Ranch.
Today Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre (85 km2) retreat and education center with two museums, the Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology and the Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology, in addition to the Ghost Ranch Library.
Tues-Sat: 9am-5pm; Closed 12pm-1pm
Sun: 1pm-5pm; Closed Monday
The Day Pass fee of $10 per adult over 18 grants guests access to both Museums, the labyrinth, and all Ghost Ranch hiking trails
ghostranch.org
October 29, 2024
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