Welcome...

to Jurassic Cliffs Ranch

Sedona...? Moab...? Zion...? Arches...? Bryce Canyon...? Canyonlands...? Garden of the Gods...? Lake Powell...? Actually, these beautiful red cliffs are on private property just miles off historic Route 66 and I-40 in McKinley County in western New Mexico. Deposited 150 million years ago in tidal flats and dunes bordering the ancient Sundance Sea in the Age of the Dinosaurs, the mud and sand have long since hardened into rock and been uplifted to over 7,000 feet above sea level on the Colorado Plateau, where the sediments now form dramatic red cliffs weathering into pinnacles, hoodoos, box canyons, and other fantastic rock formations. Within sight of the Continental Divide and Hosta Butte, the spiritual center of ancient Native American culture, this area was more recently frequented by the Anasazi, or Ancestral Pueblo tribes, who left behind petroglyphs, pottery shards, grinding stones, arrowheads, and foundation stones for adobe homes and huts. Petrified wood and dinosaur bone fragments can also be found, along with leaf fossils embedded in boulders. Consider visiting Jurassic Cliffs Ranch for a private, up-close and personal encounter with the red rock desert of the American Southwest.