El Morro Valley, NM

El Morro Valley is a census-designated place in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 30 residents. El Morro Valley includes El Morro National Monument and the unincorporated community of El Morro. The area was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The short version is that El Morro Valley carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on El Morro Valley: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The CDP is in northwestern Cibola County along New Mexico State Road 53; it is 12 miles southeast of Ramah and 40 miles southwest of Interstate 40 at Grants.