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Chimney Rock

Tour season is May 15 through September 30. During tour season, the Visitor Cabin is open between 9:00 am and 4:30 pm.

One of America's newest National Monuments, Chimney Rock is a place of mystery, a sacred place, a celestial observatory and seasonal calendar for the Ancestral Puebloans over 1,000 years ago. Chimney Rock is a place of unparalleled natural beauty sitting on a high mesa at the southern edge of the San Juan Mountains and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970.

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