We are a non-profit and not funded by the church. Ever since, the mission has been grounded in providing education programs, with a reverence to nature and hospitality to people of all faith. In 1955 Arthur Pack gave the magnificent gift of Ghost Ranch to the Presbyterian Church. Our dinosaur, the Coelophysis, is New Mexico's State Fossil. Ghost Ranch is currently open enjoy day visits for tours, trail rides and day passes for hiking and museum visits. The Coelophysis Dinosaur Quarry is a National Natural Landmark. Ghost Ranch has an international paleontological reputation since Edwin Colbert's discovery of the Coelophysis in 1947. Anthropology exhibits display ancient artifacts from the Chama Valley's Paleo Indian culture, 10,000 years ago through ancestral Puebloan times and put to modern Pueblos and Athapaskans. Ghost Ranch honors the history of Arizona by offering our guests exceptional hospitality in a setting inspired by the iconic red rocks and wild beauty of.
Ghost Ranch is also known for a remarkable. It was the home and studio of Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as the subject of many of her paintings. The Museums at Ghost Ranch specialize in anthropology and paleontology with ongoing research. Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre (85 km 2) retreat and education center located close to the village of Abiqui in Rio Arriba County in north central New Mexico, United States. The O'Keeffe Landscape Tour allows visitors to see the actual scenes and locations of O'Keeffe's paintings and hear the stories of her fifty years at Ghost Ranch. Within this setting guests enjoy an extensive offering of workshops, hiking trails, horseback riding, massage therapy, high and low ropes courses and kayaking on Abiquiu Lake. The landscape of Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico, encompasses 21,000 acres of towering rock walls, vivid colors and vast skies. Specialties: Ghost Ranch is a modern Southwestern restaurant serving a menu that embodies the spirit and possibility of the Wild West with hearty cowboy steaks, smoky rancho beans and larger-than-life enchilada platters. The museum does a very nice job of displaying the material they have given their resources, and it is easy to spend a couple hours at Ghost Ranch immersed in its remarkable paleontology story. With history that includes cattle rustlers, a poker game, dinosaur discoveries, a dude ranch for the affluent and home to Georgia O'Keeffe, Ghost Ranch is as colorful and dramatic as its landscape of the red and yellow cliffs. The Ghost Ranch Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology is a small but great museum dedicated to displaying the finds from the quarries on site.
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