1.3 miles away
Ancestral Puebloan Ruin and Petroglyphs
A Monument Valley ruin and petroglyph site on a canyon edge, fenced since 2018 to better protect it, unusually sited on the ground.
Ancestral Puebloan Ruins
Ruins in southern Monument Valley thought to be the largest and most intact in the valley, set in a wide, shallow rock cave.
- Rank in Arizona
- #509of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 25.5 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
The Ancestral Puebloan Ruins are an archaeological site in the south of Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, thought to be the largest and most intact of the valley's many Ancestral Puebloan ruins. As with other ruins in the area, they are built into a wide, shallow cave in the side of a rounded rock formation.
Where it is
Ancestral Puebloan Ruins is a historic site near Monument Valley, in Navajo County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Ancestral Puebloan Ruins, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the low confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Sun's Eye
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Monument Valley
- County
- Navajo County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 25.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 36.8918, -110.1902
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12