Current NPS alerts (2)
The Park is Closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day each year.
Fort Union National Monument is CLOSED on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day each year. The closure includes all park grounds and facilities.
New Mexico Road Advisories
The New Mexico Department of Transportation updates its map of road advisories regularly. Visitors are encouraged to look for any possible road advisories along their route of travel beforehand.
Weather alerts (National Weather Service)
Flood Watch
Flood Watch issued October 24 at 1:29PM MDT until October 25 at 6:00AM MDT by NWS Albuquerque NM
About this site
Exposed to the wind, within a sweeping valley of short grass prairie, and along the eroded Santa Fe Trail, lie the adobe walled ruins of the largest 19th century military fort in the region. From 1851 to 1891, Fort Union functioned as an agent of change, desired or not, in the New Mexico Territory and throughout the Southwest.
- Type
- National Monument
- State
- New Mexico
- Address
- 3115 NM Highway 161, Watrous, NM 87753