--- title: Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument: World’s Greatest Places 2025 description: Find out why Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is on TIME’s list of the World’s Greatest Places 2025. canonical: https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263161/kasha-katuwe-tent-rocks-national-monument/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-03-13T12:32:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:44:34.272Z article:section: World og:title: Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument: World's Greatest Places 2025 og:description: Find out why Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is one of the World's Greatest Places 2025 og:url: https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263161/kasha-katuwe-tent-rocks-national-monument/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56f4d9be0582e508/6998c4c125f3ee93316446eb/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-KashaKatuweTentRocksNationalMonument.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument: World's Greatest Places 2025 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument: World's Greatest Places 2025 twitter:description: Find out why Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is one of the World's Greatest Places 2025 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56f4d9be0582e508/6998c4c125f3ee93316446eb/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-KashaKatuweTentRocksNationalMonument.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Mar 13, 2025 # Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico by [Erin Gifford](/author/erin-gifford/) ## Erin Gifford  ferrantraite—Getty Images In the high desert of north-central New Mexico, a 40-minute drive west of Santa Fe, a surreal landscape of eroded volcanic rock formations emerges. Towering hoodoos—cone-shaped spires reaching up to 90 feet tall—rise from the earth, sculpted from layers of ash, pumice, and tuff. [Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument](https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/new-mexico/kasha-katuwe-tent-rocks-national-monument "undefined"), whose name translates to “white cliffs” in the Keresan language of the Cochiti Pueblo people, is a testament to nature’s raw power and artistry. A winding trail snakes through narrow slot canyons, up to a mesa overlook for sweeping panoramic views of hoodoos that stretch across the horizon, flanked by the majestic peaks of the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, and Sandia Mountains. Below, fragrant ponderosa pines, cottonwoods, and flowering manzanita shrubs soften the rugged terrain. After a four-year closure—first due to the pandemic, then to address over-visitation and resource protection—Kasha-Katuwe has reopened with new measures to safeguard this fragile and sacred landscape for future generations. Visitors now need timed-entry reservations (bookable via Recreation.gov) and a Cochiti Pueblo Tribal Access Pass, which can be purchased online at [Purple Pass](https://www.purplepass.com/cochitikktr "undefined"), as part of a co-stewardship agreement between the Bureau of Land Management and the eponymous tribe. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263161/kasha-katuwe-tent-rocks-national-monument/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263161/kasha-katuwe-tent-rocks-national-monument/"},"headline":"Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument","datePublished":"2025-03-13T12:32:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:44:34.272Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263161/kasha-katuwe-tent-rocks-national-monument/","keywords":["World's Greatest Places","list","franchise","Magazine","sponsorshipblock","WGP2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56f4d9be0582e508/6998c4c125f3ee93316446eb/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-KashaKatuweTentRocksNationalMonument.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Erin Gifford","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/erin-gifford/"}],"creator":"Erin Gifford","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56f4d9be0582e508/6998c4c125f3ee93316446eb/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-KashaKatuweTentRocksNationalMonument.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/worlds-greatest-places/","name":"World's Greatest Places"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263161/kasha-katuwe-tent-rocks-national-monument/","name":"Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument"}}]}] ```