Aztec Ruins National Monument
| Type of Place: | Ancestral Puebloan site |
| Ownership: | National Park Service |
| Contact: | Aztec Ruins National Monument, 84 County Road 2900, Aztec, NM 87410 |
| Telephone: | (505) 334-6174 |
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| Website: | Aztec Ruins |
| Hours: | Memorial Day – Labor Day: 8 am – 6 pm. Rest of the year: 8 am – 5 pm. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s days |
| Entrance Fee: | Yes |
| Guided Tours: | Self-guided. Rangers occasionally give interpretive talks during the summer. |
| Notes: | World Heritage Site |
| Nearby Heritage Sites: | Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park, Chaco Culture National Park |
Site Summary: Aztec Ruins is actually a group of pueblos built in the Chaco Great House tradition. Like the nearby Salmon Ruins, archaeologists call these types of sites Chacoan outlier villages as they are clearly part of the Chacoan architectural tradition, but constructed outside of Chaco Canyon itself. Aztec Ruins was occupied from the AD 1100s through the 1200s. The site has a reconstruction of a great kiva.
