This morning we got up and went down into the valley to see the ruins. With limited parking in the valley the county is paying for a bus shuttle system to ensure people keep coming to the park. My guess is there may be 30 – 40 parking spaces at the parks visitors center. Visitors can drive their own cars into the park before 9:00 a.m. and after 3:00 p.m. We left the campground at 8:30 and drive to the visitor’s center, there were about 20 available parking spaces. The shuttle system allows 100’s of people a day to be in the park. The shuttle starts at a county visitor’s center in White Rock, NM. They have a lot of parking spaces for visitors and even spots to park your RV. The RV spots have power available for $20.00 a day if you’d like to leave the A/C running. The A/C is important if you have a pet who can not ride into the park on the bus. This a really great idea. The $20.00 will than allow you to stay in this RV parking area over night.
Jean and I spent 3 hours walking along the interruptive trail viewing the ruins: ( when I get some pictures formatted I’ll post them HERE ). Pictures from today start half way down the page.