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Hubbell Trading Post National Historic SiteDon Lorenzo Hubbell at tree near Leonard building.
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Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
Plan Your Visit
The main hall of the Hubbell home.

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 a Native American art auction.
Agriculture at Hubbell Trading Post NHS.  

Did You Know?
In 2005 irrigation water was channeled into the Hubbell fields after a long hiatus. The long dormant cultural landscape is once more green with corn and alfalfa.

Last Updated: September 21, 2009 at 13:24 EST