Established as a Utah state park in 1960, the 6-acre (2.4 ha) Anasazi State Park Museum is open year-round, and features a visitor center, a museum with examples of Anasazi pottery and other artifacts, a museum store, an auditorium, and picnic areas.

However, many contemporary people of Pueblo descent eschew this word due to its negative etymology.

[2] The village is largely unexcavated, though there was a brief excavation during 1958 and 1959 conducted by the University of Utah as part of the Glen Canyon Dam Project.

During that excavation, archeologists uncovered thousands of artifacts and discovered a community of about 90 rooms divided into two separate one-story apartment complexes.

Evidence, such as singed structural building supports, suggests that the town was abandoned after a village-wide fire.