Chimney Rock Interpretive Association
Listed in the Western Reflections author directory.
The Chimney Rock Interpretive Association is a volunteer nonprofit based in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and it runs the interpretive program at Chimney Rock National Monument. It is listed in our author directory, but no books are attached to the name in our catalogue.
About Chimney Rock Interpretive Association
According to its own website, the association is a 501(c)(3) volunteer organization headquartered in Pagosa Springs. It operates the monument's interpretive program under a Participating Agreement with the USDA Forest Service and the San Juan National Forest. It offers guided tours and special events, plus free community programs called the Lecture Series, Life at Chimney Rock and School Week. The site says it takes no government funding and relies on tour fees, donations and grants.
The monument it serves lies in Archuleta County, between Durango and Pagosa Springs. Wikipedia says it was proclaimed a national monument on September 21, 2012, and that the Great House Pueblo there was built by Ancestral Puebloans of the Chaco culture, who used the site from AD 925 to 1125. We could not find a founding date on the association's site, so we give none.
Chimney Rock Interpretive Association is listed in the Western Reflections author directory and the books under this name are not yet on the site. If this is your page, send us the details and we will add them. In the meantime, the library carries the rest of the catalogue, from regional history to memoir and fiction.
What the books share
No book by the association is on record with us, so these notes come from the monument itself. The subjects are Ancestral Puebloan life, the Chacoan great house and the stewardship of a protected site in the San Juan National Forest. If a guidebook or visitor publication under this name exists, send it to us and it can be listed with a page of its own.
Next steps for readers of this author
Checking the season before a monument visit
Both the association site and the Forest Service page post seasonal status and visit details. Read them the week you plan to go, since access can change, and bring the vehicle registration the monument asks for.
Learning the Chacoan background from home
If the monument is closed or far away, start with the Chaco park page for the larger story and then follow the association's Lecture Series, which its site calls free. Write down questions to ask at a future tour.
Go deeper
Chimney Rock National Monument sits in the San Juan National Forest between Durango and Pagosa Springs. These pages cover the site, the association's programs and the wider Chaco world it belongs to.
Chimney Rock National Monument
The Forest Service page describes one of the largest Pueblo II communities in southwestern Colorado and its Chacoan connection.
Chimney Rock Interpretive Association
The association's site lists tours and its free Lecture Series, and posts the current season status.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
The National Park Service site for the New Mexico center of the Chaco phenomenon, with visit planning information.
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