Public Tours Of Trust Properties
As part of the State Land Office education outreach effort, the Field Operations Division conducts a limited number of public tours each year.
To date, these tours have focused on the cultural resources of the trust – primarily prehistoric and historic archaeological sites. Most of the thousands of such sites on trust land are currently unknown and remain undocumented, but of those that are known a select few are intermittently visited by our small tour groups on a very limited basis. We make every effort to limit our impact on these irreplaceable assets by strictly limiting the group size and minimizing the frequency of visits to any one location.
To have an opportunity to participate in such tours, interested members of the public must first register with the SLO via our online service in order to receive advance notices of impending tours.
When a tour is announced, registered individuals may sign up during the specified periods of time. At the close of the sign-up periods, those who responded will be informed via email concerning whether they have made the tour list as either a confirmed attendee or an alternate, or if the tour was completely filled prior to their response. All tours will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The current list of possible destinations for our tours of trust properties includes:
In northeast New Mexico,
The Folsom Site is the location of the earliest evidence for humans on this continent.
In the Galisteo Basin,
The Creston / Comanche Gap is a well-known and well-documented petroglyph site. Pueblo Blanco is one of the eight large ancestral Puebloan sites in the Galisteo Basin.
In the lower Chama river drainage,
Sapawe’uinge is one of the many large ancestral Puebloan sites northwest of Española.
Ancestral Navajo pueblitos in the Dinétah, in order of our stabilization efforts, including:
Old Fort Ruin, a large mesa-edge wall defending multiple hogans and masonry rooms;
The Citadel, a visually striking two-story pueblito, atop a detached mesa-edge boulder;
Truby’s Tower, a two-story cylindrical defensive structure atop an isolated boulder;
Porkchop Pass, several defensively situated structures at and near a low mesa edge;
Three Corn Ruin, a striking multi-structure site atop an isolated stone massif;
The Wall, a defensive wall across a narrow mesa top, protecting several hogans;
Star Rock Refuge, which is currently unstabilized and next on our list for proactive preservation.
Check out the current tour here.
To date, these tours have focused on the cultural resources of the trust – primarily prehistoric and historic archaeological sites. Most of the thousands of such sites on trust land are currently unknown and remain undocumented, but of those that are known a select few are intermittently visited by our small tour groups on a very limited basis. We make every effort to limit our impact on these irreplaceable assets by strictly limiting the group size and minimizing the frequency of visits to any one location.
To have an opportunity to participate in such tours, interested members of the public must first register with the SLO via our online service in order to receive advance notices of impending tours.
When a tour is announced, registered individuals may sign up during the specified periods of time. At the close of the sign-up periods, those who responded will be informed via email concerning whether they have made the tour list as either a confirmed attendee or an alternate, or if the tour was completely filled prior to their response. All tours will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The current list of possible destinations for our tours of trust properties includes:
In northeast New Mexico,
The Folsom Site is the location of the earliest evidence for humans on this continent.
In the Galisteo Basin,
The Creston / Comanche Gap is a well-known and well-documented petroglyph site. Pueblo Blanco is one of the eight large ancestral Puebloan sites in the Galisteo Basin.
In the lower Chama river drainage,
Sapawe’uinge is one of the many large ancestral Puebloan sites northwest of Española.
Ancestral Navajo pueblitos in the Dinétah, in order of our stabilization efforts, including:
Old Fort Ruin, a large mesa-edge wall defending multiple hogans and masonry rooms;
The Citadel, a visually striking two-story pueblito, atop a detached mesa-edge boulder;
Truby’s Tower, a two-story cylindrical defensive structure atop an isolated boulder;
Porkchop Pass, several defensively situated structures at and near a low mesa edge;
Three Corn Ruin, a striking multi-structure site atop an isolated stone massif;
The Wall, a defensive wall across a narrow mesa top, protecting several hogans;
Star Rock Refuge, which is currently unstabilized and next on our list for proactive preservation.
Check out the current tour here.
