page_title: Trail of the Ancients Scenic Byway (New Mexico)
section_title: Grants volcanic sites
hierarchical_section_title: Trail of the Ancients Scenic Byway (New Mexico) / Route description / Grants volcanic sites
caption_attribution_description: English: La Ventana arch in El Malpais National Park, near Grants, New Mexico, USA. Taken by (WT-shared) Charles Basenga Kiyanda November 11, 2006.
context_page_description: The Trail of the Ancients is a New Mexico Scenic Byway to prehistoric archaeological and geological sites of northwestern New Mexico. It provides insight into the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans and the Navajo, Ute, and Apache peoples. Geological features include canyons, volcanic rock features, and sandstone buttes. Several of the sites are scenic and wilderness areas with recreational opportunities.
context_section_description: Travel south on McKinley County Road 19 to NM 122, turn left and travel the road to Grants, where there is the New Mexico Mining Museum. Continue on NM 122 to NM 117 and drive south to the El Malpais National Monument, made about 3,000 years ago by lava flows.
  Return to Grants and from NM 122, take NM 53 south to the Ice Cave and Zuni-Bandera volcanic field, where there is the "Chain of Craters" of cinder cones.
caption: El Malpais National Monument
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