The Friends of the San Pedro River have arranged with the Bureau of Land Management to host several open mornings at the Murray Springs Clovis Site this fall. Here Dr. c. Vance Haynes from the University of Arizona led an expedition in the 1970s that found the remains of megafauna that had been hunted, killed, butchered, and consumed by the Clovis-Paleo Indians 13,000 years ago.
A Friend volunteer will open the gate and stay on-site with interpretive materials. There will be no guided tour. All visitors must be off site by the end time, at which point we will secure and lock the site.
Murray Springs has been closed by BLM due to vandalism. The Friends suggested these special openings to BLM as a way to afford access to the site on a limited basis. These openings are in addition to our tours of Murray Springs. Our next guided tour will be on November 23rd.
Directions: From E. Highway 90/AZ-90 in Sierra Vista, drive north on Moson Rd. for 1.28 miles and turn east. Meet the docent at the gate to the site. The entrance to the site is searchable as "Murray Springs Clovis Site" in Google Maps.
For more information, call (520) 508-4445 or email fspr@sanpedroriver.org.
