Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site


Wóshdę́ę́, please come in where the squeaky wooden floors greet your entry into the oldest operating Trading Post on the Navajo Nation. As your eyes adjust to the dim light in the "bullpen", you'll find you've just entered a mercantile. Hubbell's in Ganado has been selling goods and trading Native American Art since 1878. Discover Hubbell Trading Post NHS, sheep, rugs, jewelry and so much more...

Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site is located at mile post 446.3 on AZ state route 264. Visitors traveling on I-40 can take U.S. Highway 191 North to Ganado and drive west on Hwy. 264. If you are traveling from Gallup, New Mexico, you may take U.S. Highway 491 North to U.S. Highway 264 west toward Ganado, through Window Rock,Arizona. When you are driving south from Chinle, Arizona on Hwy. 191 you will drive east when you reach Hwy. 264.

  • Arts and Culture
  • Guided Tours
  • Junior Ranger Program
  • Shopping
  • Bookstore and Park Store

  • Architecture and Building
  • Commerce
  • Trade
  • Native American Heritage

Navajo-Churro ewe with lambs

Spring lambs with their Navajo-Churro ewe.

Each spring Navajo-Churro ewes give birth to their lambs at Hubbell Trading Post.

Front of Trading Post

Steer skull greets visitors.

Above the entry way into the trading post, there is a sun-bleached steer skull.

Hubbell Family Home

Inside the Hubbell Family home, looking south.

Thousands of visitors have visited the Hubbell Family home in the past 50 years.

Hubbell Trading Post bullpen

Bullpen inside the trading post.

Thousands of visitors and community members walk through the bullpen of the trading post.

Interpretive exhibits inside the Visitor Center

Interpretive exhibit has Mr. JL Hubbell holding his grand daughter LaCharles.

New interpretive exhibits on the family, trading post, and weaving.