リオアリバ郡の天然記念物・トップ13

This marks the state junction on the Continental Divide Trail. From here, the CDT runs approximately 750 miles north through Colorado to Wyoming, and another 800 miles south to Crazy Cook Monument at the Mexican border.

Triassic (250 million BC) chinle shale and Jurassic (160 million BC) sandstone form the characteristic red rocks of this arid landscape

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 https://www.ghostranch.org

Surprisingly large and diverse exhibits considering this remote area. Excellent info panels. Ghost Ranch is host to two museums, the Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology and the Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology, in addition to the Ghost Ranch Library. The Museums of Ghost Ranch are dedicated to advancing research, education and public engagement in Anthropology, Archaeology and Paleontology. Ghost Ranch is a world‐renowned site for Triassic paleontology. Its low, red‐grey mounded hills and washes boast three fossil quarries that are famous among scholars and amateur paleontologists, and a number of other sites where isolated skulls, bones, or skeletons have been found. The three major quarries are the Canjilon Quarry (now situated on U.S. Forest Service land), the Coelophysis Quarry, and the Hayden Quarry. Dozens of different kinds of fossil reptiles, amphibians, and other vertebrates have been discovered, as well as fossil plants and invertebrates. Its quarries have, in recent years, given a whole new perspective to our understanding of how the dinosaurs began to take dominance of the terrestrial realm in the Late Triassic, over 200 million years ago. Tues-Sat: 9am-5pm; Closed 12pm-1pm Sun: 1pm-5pm; Closed Monday The Day Pass fee of $10.00 per adult over 18 grants guests access to both Museums, the labyrinth, and all Ghost Ranch hiking trails. https://www.ghostranch.org/museums

Chicoma Mountain stands at an elevation of 11,561 feet and is an extinct supervolcano. It is the highest mountain in the Jemez Mountains range, and the trail getting to the top can be tricky to follow, so bring the appropriate navigation tools. Sometimes at the summit, near the geological survey marker, there is a rock cairn. The cairn is where Pueblo people leave traditional offerings, so respectfully do not move any objects resting at the top of the mountain.

The rim of a desert plateau provides views of the expansive landscape below. The Continental Divide Trail and some of its alternate routes converge in this area.

Kitchen Mesa is a prominent geological formation that offers extensive views of the red, sandstone desert.

The trail to the summit of Chimney Rock departs behind the Ghost Ranch museum buildings. The trail is easy to follow and ascends steadily to the top of the mesa. You will need to purchase a $10 day pass from the Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center office to gain access to the grounds and trails. Parking is available in front of the main building, just to the east.