Thoreau, New Mexico
Haystack Mountain
Once rich source of uranium, creating 30-year boom in Grants....
Haystack Mountain
Single structure, 22 groud-floor rooms, 6 rooms on 2nd story. Once occupied by Chacoan Ancestral Pueblo people between A.D 1000 and 1125
Thoreau, NM ArchaeologyFormation rises 1,700 feet from desert floor. Sacred to Navajos. Viewing allowed, off-limits to hikers, mountain climbers....
Trout/bass fishing, boat ramp, picnicking....
Civitan Municipal course is a Par 3 course....
Operated by Gallup Historical Society. Railroad and mining history in Gallup area....