Ganado is located in Northeastern Arizona within the Navajo Nation. You can feel the old wooden floor give slightly and squeak beneath your feet as you enter the oldest, continuously operating trading post on the Navajo Nation. John Lorenzo Hubbell purchased a trading post here in 1878, ten years after Navajos returned to their homeland from their terrible exile at Bosque Redondo, Ft. Sumner, New Mexico. After they returned home, traders like Hubbell supplied items for the Navajo. Hubbell family members operated this trading post until it was sold to the National Park Service in 1965. The trading post store is still active and now operated by Western National Parks Association. The Hubble House sets in the back of the trading post. We toured but could not use flash so the picture quality is lacking.
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| In front of the trading post |
The following pictures are inside the Hubble House
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| Local artisans are allowed to use this hogan for two weeks at a time. |
Lots of original art and woven rugs were used to pay for lodging.
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