Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument

Before the pandemic, the site was getting more than 100,000 visitors a year, disrupting Pueblo life. After the monument closed for the pandemic, Cochiti Pueblo and the BLM sat down to negotiate a new way for visitors to come. More than four years later, a trial period begins.

Several severe storms have rattled New Mexico this summer, one of which closed Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. The Bureau of Land Management in…