NPS photo by Edward Chamberlin.

Interior of the Hubbell family home.

Things To Do:

• Explore the oldest continuously operating trading post in the American Southwest. Shop for authentic Navajo rugs, jewelry, and baskets.
   
  
• Enter the bullpen of the trading post where the community shops for food and dry goods. Buy a delicious snack for the road.
  
  
• Watch, listen and experience the trader buy a Navajo rug from a skilled Navajo weaver.
  
  
• Wander through the grounds of the Hubbell family homestead and see the barn, bunkhouse, guest hogan, historic farm equipment, horses, chickens, and Navajo Churro sheep.
  
  
• Attend a "Sheep Is Life" workshop to learn about Navajo Lifeways.
  
  
• Join a tour of the historic Hubbell home ($2 per person), the original home lived in by J. L. Hubbell and his family.
  
  
• Watch the Navajo artist in the Visitor Center weave a Navajo rug.
  
  
• Learn how to weave a Navajo rug first hand on the visitor's loom, also in the Visitor Center.
  
  
• Attend an auction of Native American art.