Arizona State Parks
Homolovi Ruins State Park

Homolovi Ruins State Park protects more than 300 archeological sites, including 4 main 14th century pueblo ruins, in its more than 4,000 acres. This area is sacred to the Hopi because it is a site left when their ancestors in the 1300's continued their migrations to find the center of the world, the mesas where the Hopi live now. The migrating ancestors (Anasazi) stopped from the 1200's to the late 1300's and built their pueblos and tilled the soil here beside the Little Colorado River. Today's Hopi return to these sites every year to renew their ties with the people of that long ago time. As far as the Hopi are concerned, this is still part of their ancient homeland, even though many of their ancestral sites have been occupied and desecrated by the Dine' (Navajo) late-comers and the even-later European invaders. The Hopi people supported the establishment of Homolovi Ruins State Park as a means of protecting these memories of their ancestors, and the sacredness of these sites.

Today, Homolovi Ruins State Park is a center for research into the 1200's-to-late-1300's ways of life that the Hopi ancestors lived here. Archeologists study the sites and confer with the Hopi in hopes of unravelling some of the mysteries found in this sacred place.

Homolovi Ruins State Park offers 53 campsites with electric and water hookups (water is only on from April through mid-November). There are restrooms and showers (water on all year round), a dump station, picnic tables, grills, day-use ramadas and several hiking trails (one of which leads to an ancient pueblo containing an estimated 1,200 to 2,000 rooms). The State Park also has a visitor center and an excellent museum with many interpretive exhibits. Homolovi Ruins State Park is open every day of the year except Christmas.