New Mexico Road Trip Petroglyphs National Monument and Coronado Historic Site near Albuquerque

This is the 5th segment of the Road Trip of New Mexico's Parks of the RIo Grande Rift. In this episode we tour the 4 areas that make up Petroglyph National Monument. Where there are trails to 20,000 rock carvings at 3 different sites. Plus 3 and a half miles of trails in a volcanic field in the Rio Grande Rift Valley. Then we visit the site where the people who carved the petroglyphs likely lived. Coronado Historic Site was New Mexico's first State park. It features reconstructions of several of the 1200 adobe rooms of Kuaua Pueblo which was occupied from the early 1300s through the late 1600s. They recently discovered evidence that Coronado stayed there in 1540 while searching for the 7 cities of Gold.