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United States
The United States sacred-site map spans Indigenous homelands, mission churches, Marian shrines, contemplative monasteries, desert pilgrimage landscapes, and newer places of spiritual gathering.
221 sacred sites across 64 regions. Use the tradition links to narrow in.
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Pilgrimages in United States
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Christianity · California
California Mission Trail
California Missions Trail / El Camino Real
Twenty-one surviving mission sites from San Diego to Sonoma, approached as living churches, Indigenous homelands, and places shaped by colonization.
21 mapped places in United States · 21-station pilgrimage
Christianity · El Paso County, Texas
El Paso Mission Trail
A complete three-church trail along nine miles of the historic Camino Real, linking Ysleta, Socorro, and San Elizario while keeping the region's living Indigenous and borderlands history in view.
3 mapped places in United States · 3-station pilgrimage
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Giant Springs, Great Falls, Montana
Great Falls, Montana, United States
At Giant Springs, water that began its journey as snowmelt in the Little Belt Mountains emerges after 3,000 years underground—crystal clear, a constant 54 degrees, flowing...
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, United States
For at least 12,000 years, humans have stood at the edge of this chasm and felt something shift....
Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, Ohio
Moundsville, West Virginia, United States
Rising sixty-two feet above the Ohio River valley, Grave Creek Mound stands as one of the largest conical burial mounds in North America....
Great Salt Lake
Utah, United States
Great Salt Lake is a shallow terminal lake in Utah and a remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville....
Great Sand Dunes, Colorado
Mosca, Colorado, United States
The Great Sand Dunes are cultural property to 18 Indigenous tribes who gather sand here for healing rituals and sand paintings....
Great Stupa of Dharmakaya
Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, United States
Great Stupa of Dharmakaya in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, belongs within Buddhism....
Guadalupe Peak, Texas
Salt Flat, Texas, United States
Rising 8,751 feet above the Chihuahuan Desert, Guadalupe Peak stands as one of the four sacred mountains of the Mescalero Apache, where creation narratives place their...
He Sapa / Black Hills
South Dakota, United States
He Sapa / Black Hills in South Dakota, South Dakota, belongs within Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations....
Hikiau Heiau, Hawaii
Captain Cook, Hawaii, United States
On the shore of Kealakekua Bay, massive stones rise in witness to what came before and what persists....
Hikinaakala Heiau, Kauai
Kapaa, Hawaii, United States
At the mouth of the Wailua River on Kauai's eastern shore, the foundation stones of Hikinaakala Heiau mark the exact point where the rising sun first touches the island....
Hill Cumorah
Manchester, New York, United States
Hill Cumorah in Manchester, New York, belongs within Latter Day Saint Restoration traditions....
Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary
Hubertus, Wisconsin, United States
Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary in Hubertus, Wisconsin, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
Newark, Ohio, United States
The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks rise from Ohio's rolling landscape as monuments to a 2,000-year-old vision....
Horseshoe Bend
Page, Arizona, United States
A thousand feet below the overlook, the Colorado River completes its patient arc through Navajo Sandstone, forming the near-perfect horseshoe that has drawn both...
House of Taga
San Jose, Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, United States
House of Taga holds the largest latte stone formation in the Mariana Islands, twelve massive pillars once supporting a chief's house, now reduced to a single upright shaft...
Hovenweep Ruins, Utah
Shiprock Agency, Utah, United States
On the high desert where Utah meets Colorado, stone towers stand at the edges of canyons, their windows aligned with solstice and equinox....
Hsi Lai Temple
Hacienda Heights, California, United States
Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, belongs within Buddhism. At Hsi Lai Temple, sacred life continues through meditation at Hsi Lai Temple, chanting at Hsi Lai...
Iao Valley State Park, Maui
Wailuku, Hawaii, United States
In the West Maui Mountains, mist drifts through a valley that has been sacred to Hawaiians for centuries....
Independence Temple
Independence, Missouri, United States
Independence Temple in Independence, Missouri, belongs within Latter Day Saint Restoration traditions....
Inyan Kara Mountain, Wyoming
Sundance, Wyoming, United States
Rising from the Wyoming plains at the western edge of the Black Hills, Inyan Kara Mountain holds profound significance for the Lakota people as part of an interconnected...
Islamic Center of America
Dearborn, Michigan, United States
Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, belongs within Islam. At Islamic Center of America, sacred life continues through the five daily prayers at Islamic Center...
Islamic Center of Washington
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Islamic Center of Washington in Washington, District of Columbia, belongs within Islam....
Island Lake, Colorado
Silverton, Colorado, United States
Island Lake near Silverton offers what might be called a contemporary nature pilgrimage....
Jeffers Petroglyphs, Comfrey, Minnesota
Comfrey, Minnesota, United States
On a ridge of red Sioux quartzite in southwestern Minnesota, approximately five thousand rock carvings stretch across one of the oldest continuously used sacred sites in...
Joshua Tree National Park, California
Joshua Tree, California, United States
Rising from the meeting place of two deserts, Joshua Tree's otherworldly landscape of giant granite boulders and twisted trees has drawn seekers for millennia....
Judaculla Rock
Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States
Judaculla Rock in Cullowhee, North Carolina, belongs within Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations....
Kauai's Hindu Monastery
Kapaʻa, Hawaii, United States
Kauai's Hindu Monastery in Kapaʻa, Hawaii, belongs within Hinduism. At Kauai's Hindu Monastery, sacred life continues through darshan at Kauai's Hindu Monastery, puja at...
Keahiakawelo (Garden of the Gods), Hawaii
Lanai City, Hawaii, United States
On the remote northwestern shore of Lanai, red rock towers rise from barren earth in formations so otherworldly that visitors struggle to reconcile them with typical...
Kilauea
Volcano, Hawaii, United States
On Hawaii's Big Island, Kilauea volcano rises as the dwelling place of Pele, goddess of fire and creator of the Hawaiian Islands....
Kincaid Mounds, Brookport, Illinois
Brookport, Kentucky, United States
For 350 years, Kincaid Mounds served as the heart of a chiefdom where thousands gathered for ceremony, governance, and trade....
Kirtland Temple
Kirtland, Ohio, United States
Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio, belongs within Latter Day Saint Restoration traditions....
Kolomoki Mounds
Blakely, Georgia, United States
Kolomoki Mounds in Blakely, Georgia, belongs within Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations....
Kukaniloko Birthstones, Hawaii
Wahiawa, Hawaii, United States
In the pineapple fields of central Oahu, stones rise from the earth that are not quite stones....
Lake Jackson Mounds, Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
In the rolling hills north of Tallahassee, six earthen mounds rise from the red clay of Florida's Panhandle....
Lassen Peak, California
Mineral, California, United States
Lassen Peak stands as the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Range and ancestral homeland of the Atsugewi, Yana, Yahi, and Mountain Maidu peoples....
Malibu Hindu Temple
Calabasas, California, United States
Malibu Hindu Temple in Calabasas, California, belongs within Hinduism. At Malibu Hindu Temple, sacred life continues through darshan at Malibu Hindu Temple, puja at Malibu...
Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics
Maria Stein, Ohio, United States
In rural western Ohio, surrounded by farmland and the steeples of over thirty cross-tipped churches, the Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics holds one of the largest...
Marksville mounds
Marksville, Louisiana, United States
For two thousand years, the mounds at Marksville have held the dead. The Marksville culture that built them was connected by trade and ceremony to peoples across North...
Martin's Cove
Alcova, Wyoming, United States
Martin's Cove in Alcova, Wyoming, belongs within Latter Day Saint Restoration traditions....
Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Hilo, Hawaii, United States
Mauna Kea rises nearly 14,000 feet above Hawaii Island, a dormant volcano that Native Hawaiians call Mauna a Wakea, the first-born mountain child of Sky Father and Earth...
Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde, Colorado, United States
Mesa Verde National Park in Mesa Verde, Colorado, belongs within Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations....
Meteor Crater, Arizona
Coconino County, Arizona, United States
Fifty thousand years ago, a nickel-iron meteorite crossed the boundary between space and earth, excavating a crater nearly a mile wide in the Arizona high desert....
Miami Circle
Miami, Florida, United States
Miami Circle in Miami, Florida, belongs within Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations....
Mission Concepción
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Mission Concepción is a living parish church within a Spanish colonial mission complex in San Antonio, United States....
Mission Espada
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Mission Espada is a living parish church and southern mission complex within an irrigated cultural landscape in San Antonio, United States....
Mission La Purísima Concepción
Lompoc, Lompoc, California, United States
Mission La Purísima Concepción is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Lompoc, Lompoc, California, United States, not as a route label or nearby point of...
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
Soledad, Soledad, California, United States
The record concerns a historic mission complex and living religious site within Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories....
Mission San Antonio de Padua
Jolon, Jolon, California, United States
Mission San Antonio de Padua is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Jolon, Jolon, California, United States, not as a route label or nearby point of interest....
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Key questions
United States sacred-site questions
What sacred sites can I explore in United States?
Pilgrim Map lists sacred places in United States across living worship sites, heritage landmarks, pilgrimage destinations, and culturally significant landscapes. The current guide lists 221 sites organized by region and tradition.
Which traditions are represented in United States?
The most represented traditions include Indigenous, Roman Catholic Christianity, Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories, Christianity, Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations, Latter Day Saint Restoration traditions.
How should I plan a sacred-site visit in United States?
Start with regional clusters, compare nearby places on the map, then open individual site pages for coordinates, etiquette, and sacred context where available.
Can I view United States sacred sites on a map?
Yes. Switch to map view to compare geographic clusters, then open individual site pages for coordinates, visiting context, and related places.