Homolovi State Park is Open!

State Forester Issues Stage II Fire Restrictions

The Arizona State Forester has issued the following Fire Restrictions for all Arizona State Parks:

Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, charcoal, coal, or wood stove including
fires in developed campgrounds or improved sites is prohibited. Exemptions include persons using
a device solely fueled by liquid petroleum or LPG fuels that can be turned on and off. Such devices
can only be used in an area that is barren or cleared of all overhead and surrounding flammable
materials within 3 feet of the device.
Smoking is prohibited unless it is within an enclosed vehicle or building.
Discharging a firearm except while engaged in a lawful hunt pursuant to state, federal, or tribal
laws and regulations is prohibited. The exemption to this is that the discharging of firearms is
allowed on agency designated shooting ranges.
The discharging or using of any kind of fireworks and incendiary devices is prohibited.
The following mechanical and industrial activities are prohibited:
o Operating any internal combustion engine.
o Welding, or operating acetylene or other torch with open flame.
o Using an explosive.

Fire restrictions remain in effect at this park until further notice. Read Complete Release

Homolovi Now Offers 24/7 Online Campground Reservations!

Reserve your spot (campground RV or tent site) from the comfort of your home, anytime of day. Make online reservations Site reservations for this park are also available by calling the Reservation Center at (520) 586-2283. You can call 7 days a week, from 8 am to 5 pm MST. There is a $5 non-refundable reservation fee per site.

Saturdays, June 22 - July 31: Homolovi II Site Tour (Part of Journey Stories)

Meet at 1 pm at Homolovi Visitor Center (then travel by vehicle to Homolovi II site for a tour start time of 1:15 pm). The tour is about 1 hour. This tour is ADA accessible. Guests who need a sign language interpreter should contact the park in advance. Call (928) 289-4106 to reserve.

This tour is a part of the Journey Stories Smithsonian Exhibition. Homolovi State Park has partnered with the Old Trails Museum to bring you a special Smithsonian Exhibition. The Exhibit shows how our evolving mobility changed a young nation and how transportation made us grow. The accounts of travelers themselves express the hopes and promises of fresh starts, the grim realities of forced migrations and difficult journeys, and the thrills of personal travel. Standard entrance fee and ranger led tour fee apply.

Journey Stories has been made possible in Winslow by the Arizona Humanities Council. Journey Stories is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress. For information on all local Journeys to Winslow companion exhibits and programs, go to www.oldtrailsmuseum.org or "like" the museum on Facebook.

August 3: Suvoyuki Day

8 am - 3 pm. Open house free day! "Suvoyuki" translated in the Hopi language means to accomplish work through at "joint effort." Suvoyuki Days starts with an open house day at Homolovi State Park that celebrates the partners who have helped to protect and save Homolovi area archaeological and cultural sites from destruction. Special archaeological site tours will be held at 9:00 am, 11:00 am, and 1:00 pm. Cultural artists and demonstrators will also be on hand. The Homolovi Dancers will perform two dances at the event. The corn roasting pit will be opened at 8:00 am and will start the day's activities.

September 29, 2013: Flagstaff Festival of Science

Enjoy a behind the scenes guided tour of the Homolovi IV Pueblo. This tour is exclusive for the participants of the Flagstaff Festival of Science. Participation is through the festival at www.scifest.org and then calling the park at (928) 289-4106 to reserve a tour. This tour is limited to 15 people. The Homolovi IV site is closed to the public and only accessible by a guided Ranger Lead tour.

Sept. 28; Oct. 5, 6, 12, 19, 20, & 26; Nov. 2: Homolovi IV Site Tour

The Homolovi IV site is usually closed to the public. These special ranger-led tours will allow you to access this site. Tours are limited to 15 people. The tour will leave from the Homolovi Visitor Center at 10 am. Visitors will follow the ranger to the site 12 miles from the Visitor Center. Good hiking boots are recommended, along with a jacket, and water. Call the park at (928) 289-4106 to reserve this tour! Standard entrance fee and ranger led tour fee apply.

Introductory Park Video

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About the Park: Ancestral Hopi Villages

The park is open! Check out the photos from the Grand Re-Opening.

In the high grassland of 14th century northern Arizona, an ancient people found a home along the Little Colorado River. These people, the Hisat'sinom (known to archaeologists as the Anasazi), paused in their migrations to till the rich flood plain and sandy slopes before continuing north to join people already living on the mesas, people who are today known as the Hopi.

The Hopi people of today still consider Homolovi, as well as other precolumbian sites in the southwest, to be part of their homeland. They continue to make pilgrimages to these sites, renewing the ties of the people with the land. The Hopi tell us that the broken pottery and stones are now part of the land and are the trail the Bahana will follow when he returns. Therefore, these are mute reminders that the Hopi continue to follow the true Hopi way and the instructions of Masau'u.

The years have brought many changes to Homolovi. The migrations ended when the people settled at the center of the world, the Hopi Mesas north of Homolovi. However, as new people appeared, such as the Diné (Navajo) and later the Europeans, the Hopi watched as their homeland was occupied by the new people. Eventually they also saw these people begin destroying their ancient homes, digging in these sacred sites for curios and for items to sell.

In an effort to protect some of these sites, the Hopi people supported the idea of Homolovi State Park. This idea resulted in the establishment of the park in 1986 and the opening of the park in 1993.

Homolovi State Park now serves as a center of research for the late migration period of the Hopi from the 1200s to the late 1300s. While archaeologists study the sites and confer with the Hopi to unravel the history of Homolovi, Arizona State Parks provides the opportunity for visitors to visit the sites and use park facilities including a visitor center and museum, various trails and a campground. Several covered picnic tables are located throughout the park. Pullouts provide the opportunity to observe wildlife in this park of over 4,000 acres at an elevation of 4,900 feet.

“Homolovi” is Hopi for “Place of the Little Hills” — the traditional name for Winslow, Arizona.

Although the protects Hopi lands and cultural artifacts, the park also contains a small cemetery from a group of 19th century settlers who founded the city of Sunset. Sunset Cemetery stands as a mute testimony to the undaunted spirit of the brave pioneers who forged a living from this once desolate and forbidding land. Learn more about the cemetery in the Feature Story.

Download Audio Walking Tour of Homolovi II Site

You can listen online or download to your personal MP3 player ( 35 MB MP3) a tour of the Homolovi II Site. This fascinating audio tour is a great introduction to the park, and a great way to learn more about the area and its history. To Download the MP3: Windows Users: Right Click Download Link. Mac Users: Control+Click Download Link. You may also read instructions to manually import MP3s into iTunes or other software compatible with various digital audio devices. This Audio Walking Tour was made possible by a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council.

Did You Know?

This is a sacred place to the Hopi people. Each broken piece of pottery, each stone fragment, each ancient wall, and each figure pecked into stone by their ancestors is sacred and deserves our respect. In addition, state and federal laws are actively enforced to protect these sites.

Removal or damage of any site, artifact, artifact fragment, or rock art can incur penalties under state law of 5 years in prison and a maximum $150,000 fine. We therefore ask that you respect the wishes of the Hopi people ... Enjoy Homolovi, but leave the sites as you find them.

Stabilization Work

Stabiliaztion Work A total of 633 hours of volunteer on-site work by The Arizona Archaeological Society was carried out on the weekends of May 6-8 & 13-15, Sept. 14-18, 2011, repairing and stabilizing exposed walls at Homolovi I & II. The preservation of these walls play an important role in interpreting these Ancestral Hopi Villages to visitors. Dr. Charles Adams, Arizona State Museum, directed the project and park staff provided assistance with water for the "mud" mortar and hauled a lot of soil for the mix. The park also provided campsites and trailer accommodations for participants.

Photo Wrap-Up Gallery: Park Re-Opening Celebration!

Over 570 people attended the Park Re-Opening Celebration on March 18, 2011, and hundreds more came on Saturday! See photos from the re-opening event!

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