Fort Bayard Museum / National Historic Landmark

Go on a Saturday

There is a lot of history here. The Fort was home to a company of Buffalo Soldiers during the Apache wars and later the site of a state-of-the-art TB hospital in the early 1900s. A well-curated museum...

Fascinating history!

Current volunteer status limits operating hours to just a few Saturday morning to early afternoon only. That said, it's worth arranging your schedule to allow for a visit here. We spent about a hal...

Fascinating bit of history

We happened upon the fort by chance. I love old ruins, but this is not old pieces of forgotten places, this has buildings- and a lot of them! There is A statue of a medal of honor winner, a parade gro...

Peace & solitude

My dog & I walked behind the old hospital, then the new one. Lots of wide open space, where one can't see even an electric wire! Went sev X a week - I will be forever homesick for the peace & solitud...

Very interesting & deserted

The remains of multi-generations of this fort. It chaged "ownership" and purpose many times. Only open about once a week; check on days and hours.