El Morro National Monument

We leave the RV park and head toward El Morro National Monument. On the way we stop at another Historic Route 66 landmark, the Rio Puerco bridge:

We stop at the El Malpais Visitor Center and make lunch; then continue to El Morro National Monument. We look around the museum and then outside for our walk/hike around and then to the top of Inscription Rock. Inscription Rock's claim to fame is the inscriptions that travelers made on the rock in the 1600 to 1800s. Travelers would carve their name and date in the soft sandstone.

We find the inscriptions interesting, but the hike to the top of the mesa and then walking around the top of the mesa is more 'fun'.

View from the top of the mesa:

Ruins (probably occupied in the early 1300s) from Anasazi on top of the mesa:

Then we take some smaller roads and stay in an RV park about 20 miles from Petrified National Park (tomorrow's destination).