162 * * * * * "Oh, Ranger!" 



The visit to El Morro is an interesting side trip for motorists over the 

 National Old Trails Highway. El Morro is reached by rail from Gallup, 

 New Mexico, on the Santa Fe Railroad. 



AZTEC RUIN NATIONAL MONUMENT 



Situated near the town of Aztec, New Mexico, and reached by the 

 National Park-to-Park Highway, is the Aztec Ruin National Monument, a 

 large E-shaped structure of the pueblo type containing approximately five 

 hundred rooms. The Aztec Ruin is the largest of a group of ruins, and is 

 the most striking and best preserved. Relics, including a hafted axe, 

 potsherds, and other objects, indicate that the inhabitants of this ruin may 

 have been of the same peoples as the Mesa Verde Indians. It may prove an 

 important link in piecing together the story of these early Americans. 

 Excavations are being conducted by the American Museum of Natural His 

 tory, which deeded the ruin to the government in 1923 through the courtesy 

 of a trustee, Mr. Archer M. Huntington. 



GRAN QUIVIRA 



The Gran Quivira is the ruins of one of the important links in the chain 

 of Spanish missions of the Southwest. It is near Mountainair, New Mexico, 

 on the Santa Fe Railroad, or can be reached on the National Old Trails 

 Highway from Socorro, New Mexico. There are numerous Indian pueblo 

 ruins near by which will be preserved when excavated. Both the mission and 

 the pueblos are said to have been built by women and children of the Piro 

 tribe of Indians. 



CAPULIN MOUNTAIN NATIONAL MONUMENT 



Capulin Mountain, New Mexico, is a magnificent example of a recently 

 extinct volcano. It rises to an altitude of 8,000 feet above sea level, and the 

 cone stands 1,500 feet above the general level of the surrounding plain. This 

 steep cinder cone is surrounded by the mesas, peculiar to New Mexico. The 

 whole formation offers an interesting study in volcanic activity, the mesas 

 as well as the cone having been formed by successive lava flows. At the top 

 of the mountain the crater can be studied with ease. This monument covers 

 an area of 680 acres. It is reached via the Colorado-to-Gulf Highway or 

 via a branch line of the Santa Fe Railroad from the town of Dedman, or 

 from the town of Folsom on the Colorado Southern Railroad. 



RAINBOW BRIDGE 



The most remarkable natural bridge yet discovered in the world is the 

 Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah. This colorful bridge is not only perfect 

 in its symmetry, both top and bottom, but it is so huge that the dome of 

 the Capitol Building in Washington could stand under it without touching 

 the span, which is 309 feet high and 278 feet from pier to pier. The Rainbow 

 Bridge is now easily reached over new trails from Kayenta, Arizona, which 

 is also the starting point for trail trips to the Navaho National Monument. 



