Visiting Taos Pueblo

Hours, admission and the Pueblo's own rules for visits — including the feast-day camera ban and the late-winter closure.

Taos Pueblo is a sovereign Tiwa nation and the valley's oldest community — continuously inhabited for about a thousand years, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the town of Taos's neighbor, not one of its attractions. The Pueblo welcomes visitors on its own terms. These are its rules, summarized from taospueblo.com; that site and the tourism office are the authority on all of it.

Feast days: total camera ban

On feast days — San Geronimo (September 30), the Christmas Eve Procession, the dances on January 1, May 3, June 13, June 24, July 25–26, December 25 — no recording devices of any kind are allowed. The Pueblo enforces a strict confiscation, no-return policy. Leave the phone in the car and be present.

Late-winter closure

Each year the Pueblo closes to visitors for a stretch of late winter and early spring; the dates move year to year, roughly between February and April. It can also close on short notice for ceremonies or a death in the community. Check taospueblo.com or call 575-758-1028 before making the trip.

Taos Pueblo

Sovereign Tiwa nation, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Open: Daily 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. when open to visitors — the Pueblo closes for religious activities, community mourning, and an extended late-winter/early-spring period
Phone: 575-758-1028
Address: 120 Veterans Highway, Taos, NM 87571
Website: Official page

Admission

Adult: $25 per person
Senior: $22 per person
Student (11 and up): $22 per person — includes college students with ID
Groups of 8+ adults: $22 per person
Children 10 and under: Free

Fees are set by Taos Pueblo and can change — check taospueblo.com before you go.

How a visit works

You are a guest in a living community, on sovereign land with its own government, courts and rules — visit, in the Pueblo's words, as if it were your own home.
Respect every Restricted Area sign; they protect residents' privacy and religious sites. Do not enter the cemetery or the river.
Enter only buildings clearly marked as businesses — unmarked doors are people's homes.
Photography: never photograph tribal members without their permission, no photography at all inside San Geronimo Chapel, and professional or commercial photography requires pre-approval and fees.
On feast days the rules tighten completely: no photos or recordings of any kind — cell phones, cameras and drones are confiscated, with no return.

Taos Pueblo

Sovereign Tiwa nation, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Open: Daily 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. when open to visitors — the Pueblo closes for religious activities, community mourning, and an extended late-winter/early-spring period
Phone: 575-758-1028
Address: 120 Veterans Highway, Taos, NM 87571
Website: Official page

Admission

Adult: $25 per person
Senior: $22 per person
Student (11 and up): $22 per person — includes college students with ID
Groups of 8+ adults: $22 per person
Children 10 and under: Free

Fees are set by Taos Pueblo and can change — check taospueblo.com before you go.

How a visit works

You are a guest in a living community, on sovereign land with its own government, courts and rules — visit, in the Pueblo's words, as if it were your own home.

Respect every Restricted Area sign; they protect residents' privacy and religious sites. Do not enter the cemetery or the river.

Enter only buildings clearly marked as businesses — unmarked doors are people's homes.

Photography: never photograph tribal members without their permission, no photography at all inside San Geronimo Chapel, and professional or commercial photography requires pre-approval and fees.

On feast days the rules tighten completely: no photos or recordings of any kind — cell phones, cameras and drones are confiscated, with no return.