Taos Pueblo
An ancient pueblo of the Tiwa-speaking Taos people at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, lived in for around a thousand years. Its multi-storey adobe houses are still home to families, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Where
- Taos, New Mexico, United States
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 36.4389, -105.5417
Get the Taos Pueblo stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Taos Pueblo. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your New Mexico volume with your photos and a note.
Near Taos Pueblo
Garden of the Gods 278 km
A public park on the edge of Colorado Springs, about 540 hectares of red sandstone fins and towers standing up against the backdrop of Pikes Peak. Much of it was named a National Natural Landmark in 1971, and paths wind between the rocks.
Mesa Verde National Park 278 km
Some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan sites in the United States, protected in a park in southwestern Colorado that is the state's only World Heritage Site. Its stone villages include dwellings built into alcoves under the overhanging cliffs, lived in by Pueblo peoples centuries ago.
Monument Valley 411 km
A valley on the Colorado Plateau along the Arizona and Utah line, where sandstone buttes rise as much as 300 metres above the desert floor. It lies within the Navajo Nation, which holds it sacred, and its silhouettes are familiar from decades of Western films.
White Sands National Park 411 km
A national park in the Tularosa Basin covering the southern part of the largest gypsum dunefield on Earth. Its dunes reach 18 metres high, and the white crystal sand stays cool underfoot and looks like snow.
Petrified Forest National Park 413 km
A national park in northeastern Arizona named for its large deposits of petrified wood, ancient logs turned to stone in shades of red, yellow and purple. It also takes in colourful eroded badlands of the Painted Desert, and old Route 66 crosses it.
Canyonlands National Park 420 km
A maze of canyons, mesas and buttes carved by the Colorado and Green rivers and their tributaries in southeastern Utah. The park was created in 1964, and its overlooks look down on layer after layer of coloured rock worn away by the two rivers.
Arches National Park 435 km
More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches stand in this park just north of Moab, the densest collection of them anywhere on Earth. The best known is Delicate Arch, and the fins, spires and balanced rocks around it owe their shapes to a buried bed of salt shifting beneath the desert.
Rocky Mountain National Park 435 km
A slice of the Front Range of the Rockies between Estes Park and Grand Lake, about 90 km northwest of Denver. The Continental Divide runs through the middle, the Colorado River rises in its northwest corner, and the land climbs from forest past alpine lakes to open mountain tundra.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in New Mexico
Questions
Where is Taos Pueblo?
Taos Pueblo is in Taos, New Mexico, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Garden of the Gods (278 km), Mesa Verde National Park (278 km), Monument Valley (411 km).
How do I get the Taos Pueblo stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Taos Pueblo and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your New Mexico volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Taos Pueblo before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your New Mexico volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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