Field trips in New Mexico

National monument preserving 13th-century Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings with ranger programs covering archaeology, geology, and indigenous history.

Massive limestone cave system at a National Park — speleology, karst geology, bat biology, and cave ecosystem ecology.

UNESCO World Heritage Site with 1,000-year-old Ancestral Puebloan great houses — covers archaeology, pre-Columbian astronomy, and Southwest Indigenous history.

NM Museum of Space History covers rocketry, astronaut training, and U.S. space program history with artifacts and exhibits.

National park featuring 275 sq miles of white gypsum dune field — covers sedimentary geology, desert ecology, and mineralogy in a rare landscape.

275 square miles of gypsum sand dunes — covers mineralogy, desert ecology, aeolian geology, and unique plant and animal adaptations.

Museum documenting Acoma Pueblo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America — covers Indigenous history and Southwest archaeology.

Live reptile museum housing one of the world's largest rattlesnake collections — covers herpetology, venom biology, and snake ecology and conservation.

NPS Ancestral Puebloan monument with standing great house and kiva — covers pre-Columbian archaeology, pueblo architecture, and Chacoan trade networks.

Extinct cinder-cone volcano with rim drive and crater trail — covers volcanology, plate tectonics, and geologic landform formation.

National monument featuring lava tubes, cinder cones, and volcanic geology — covers volcanology, geomorphology, and Earth science.

NPS sandstone mesa with Spanish and Pueblo inscriptions dating to 1605 — covers colonial-era exploration, Indigenous history, and epigraphy.

Living-history ranch near Santa Fe depicting 18th-century Spanish Colonial life in New Mexico — covers settlement, agriculture, and Southwest heritage.

NPS-preserved 13th-century Mogollon cliff dwellings — covers pre-Columbian Indigenous architecture, archaeology, and Southwestern cultural history.

Dedicated nuclear science and history museum covering fission, reactor design, the Manhattan Project, and Cold War weapons development.

State history museum in the Palace of the Governors complex — covers New Mexico's Spanish colonial, Native American, and territorial history with primary-source artifacts.

State natural-history museum with dinosaur fossils, volcanic geology, and New Mexico paleontology exhibits — applied earth science and evolutionary biology.

NPS site preserving a Pueblo and Spanish mission complex occupied 1100–1838 — pre-Columbian archaeology, Spanish colonial history, and Ancestral Puebloan culture.

Over 20,000 volcanic rock carvings by ancestral Pueblo peoples — covers Indigenous archaeology, geology of volcanic escarpments, and Southwest prehistory.

Continuously inhabited Pueblo community since before 1000 CE — covers Native American history, architecture, and Southwest cultural geography.

Volcanic caldera national preserve in the Jemez Mountains — supports volcanology, grassland ecology, wildlife biology, and geologic history curriculum.

Gallery dedicated to Allan Houser's Indigenous sculpture and painting — covers Native American art history and 20th-century modernism.

Museum adjacent to Aztec Ruins National Monument covering ancestral Puebloan culture and Southwest archaeology — Native American history and archaeology.

Historic home of Charles Bent, first American governor of New Mexico Territory, covering the 1847 Taos Revolt and early U.S. Southwest history.