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Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in southwestern New Mexico was established as a national monument November 16, 1907. Its gross vicinity is 533 demesne (Ii.Ii kilometer²).

It offers the glimpse of the homes & peoples of the population of the Mogollon culture who sleep in the Gila Wilderness from the 1280s through the early 1300s. A surroundings probably look now much prefer it did once a drop-off home were inhabited. These are surrounded per Gila National Forest and lies at the edge of the Gila Wilderness, the United States' number 1 intended wilderness area. This designation means that a woods character of the vicinity might non become altered per intrusion of roads or even more grounds to believe of individual presence.

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Official National Park Service site.






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