Group: 23

(Oklahoma, northern Texas, northern New Mexico, northeastern Arizona)

This group has not been visited yet.

This group creates a long, straight route across the south-central U.S., paralleling Group 16's path but to the north. It does pick up a newly designated site in Mississippi (Emmett Till NM)before heading across Oklahoma.

That state has two sites: Chickasaw NRA and Washita Battlefield NHS. A trip across the Texas panhandle yields two more sites in the Alibates Flint Quarries NM and Lake Meredith NRA.

New Mexico is home to 11 sites ranging from volcanic remains, geological sites, ruins of past civilizations, and a site preserving the work of the Manhattan Project.

The final three sites rest over the Arizona border and feature petrified trees, an old-west trading post, and a scenic canyon.

Park units in this group

Click on any of the parks listed below to see the page specific to that park.

Park pages for unvisited sites include information about the unit and a link to the NPS website's page.

For sites that I have visited, the park page will have my comments about the site, photos and links to both the NPS official page and my blog entry for that park visit.

The interactive map to the right shows the location of each unit. You can zoom in and move around on the map. The rectangle icon in the top right will expand the map to full screen. Clicking on any unit in the map will open a small information window. The map and icons on it are based on the same information found in the Google Earth KML files, which you can download from the Home page.

• Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument    (Fritch, TX)
• Bandelier National Monument    (Los Alamos, NM)
• Canyon De Chelly National Monument    (chinle, AZ)
• Capulin Volcano National Monument    (Capulin, NM)
• Chaco Culture National Historical Park    (Nageezi, NM)
• Chickasaw National Recreation Area    (Sulphur, OK)
• El Malpais National Monument    (Grants, NM)
• El Morro National Monument    (Ramah, NM)
• Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument    (Sumner, MS)
• Fort Union National Monument    (Watrous, NM)
• Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site    (Ganado, AZ)
• Lake Meredith National Recreation Area    (Fritch, TX)
• Manhattan Project National Historical Park    (Los Alamos, NM)
• Pecos National Historical Park    (Pecos, NM)
• Petrified Forest National Park    (Petrified Forest, AZ)
• Petroglyph National Monument    (Albuquerque, NM)
• Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument    (Mountainair, NM)
• Valles Caldera National Preserve    (Jemez Springs, NM)
• Washita Battlefield National Historic Site    (Cheyenne, OK)