Ghost Ranch

Ghost Ranch
El Rancho de los Brujos[1]
Location of Ghost Ranch
Coordinates: 36°19′47.24″N 106°28′26.4″W / 36.3297889°N 106.474000°W / 36.3297889; -106.474000
CountryUnited States
StateNew Mexico
CountyRio Arriba
Websitewww.ghostranch.org
Designated1975
Ghost Ranch redrock cliffs and clouds
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico

Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre (85 km2)[1] retreat and education center in Rio Arriba County in north central New Mexico, United States. It is about 65 miles northwest of Santa Fe and 14 miles from Abiquiu, the nearest community. In the later 20th century, it was the summer home and studio of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as the subject of many of her paintings. It often serves as a location for movie production. Ghost Ranch is owned by the Presbyterian Church (USA) and leased to and managed by The National Ghost Ranch Foundation, Inc.

Ghost Ranch is known for a remarkable concentration of fossils, most notably that of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis, of which it has been estimated that nearly a thousand individuals have been preserved in a quarry at Ghost Ranch.[2]

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  2. ^ Williamson, Tom. "New Mexico Earth Matters" (PDF). New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources. Retrieved 5 August 2018.