Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a minimum 2-hour drive 44 miles north of Silver City via SR 15, at 26 Jim Bradford Trail in Mimbres. Vehicles pulling trailers 20 feet or longer should take SR 35 from Mimbres or SR 152 through Hillsboro, and then SR 15. In this rough and desolate country near the west fork of the Gila (HEE-la) River, seven natural cavities indent the face of a cliff some 175 feet above the canyon floor. Five of these hollows contain rooms constructed during the late 13th century by people of the Mogollon culture—these remain the focus of the monument. Learn More...