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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.
238 sacred sites across 67 regions. Use the tradition links to narrow in.
Sacred journeys
Pilgrimages in United States
Follow routes that connect sacred places across United States. Mapped-place counts reflect the current atlas.
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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Showing 193-238 of 238 sites in this country guide
Séc-he Sacred Hot Spring
Palm Springs, California, United States
Séc-he remains central to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in downtown Palm Springs.
Sedona, Arizona
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Rising from the Arizona high desert, Sedona's crimson spires and buttes have called to seekers for millennia....
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine
Pacific Palisades, California, United States
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades, California, belongs within Kriya Yoga and interfaith contemplative practice....
Serpent Mound, Peebles, Ohio
Bratton Township, Ohio, United States
Serpent Mound rises from an Ohio hilltop—1,348 feet of earthen serpent uncoiling toward the summer solstice sunset....
Shasta Abbey
Mount Shasta, California, United States
Shasta Abbey in Mount Shasta, California, belongs within Christian monastic tradition....
Shiprock, New Mexico
Shiprock, New Mexico, United States
Rising nearly 1,600 feet above the New Mexico desert, Shiprock is not merely a geological wonder but a sacred presence at the heart of Navajo cosmology....
Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
Champion, Wisconsin, United States
In a quiet corner of Wisconsin's Northwoods, Belgian immigrant Adele Brise reported three apparitions of Mary in October 1859....
Shrine of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Fonda, New York
Village of Fonda, New York, United States
On the north bank of the Mohawk River in upstate New York, a modest shrine marks the place where Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk-Algonquin woman, was baptized in 1676....
Sikh Gurdwara of Stockton
Stockton, California, United States
Sikh Gurdwara of Stockton in Stockton, California, belongs within Sikhism. At Sikh Gurdwara of Stockton, sacred life continues through kirtan at Sikh Gurdwara of Stockton,...
Sipapu
Arizona, United States
In publicly shared Hopi tradition, a sipapu is a place of emergence, represented symbolically in kivas....
Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
Empire, Michigan, United States
Along the northwestern shore of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, towering dunes rise 450 feet above Lake Michigan, and two islands hover on the horizon....
Snoqualmie Falls, Oregon
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
For the Snoqualmie People, this 268-foot waterfall is where creation began. According to their tradition, Moon the Transformer made the first man and woman here, and the...
Spanish Peaks, Colorado
Walsenburg, Colorado, United States
Rising seven thousand feet above the Colorado plains, the Spanish Peaks emerge as twin sentinels at the threshold between prairie and mountain....
Spirit Mountain, Nevada
Laughlin, Nevada, United States
Rising from the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada, a white granite peak holds the origin of worlds....
Spiro Mounds State Park
Spiro, Oklahoma, United States
Between 850 and 1450 CE, Spiro Mounds served as one of four great ceremonial centers of the Mississippian world....
Sri Venkateswara Temple
Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, United States
Sri Venkateswara Temple in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, belongs within Hinduism. At Sri Venkateswara Temple, sacred life continues through darshan at Sri Venkateswara Temple,...
St. Catherine of Siena Chapel on the Rock
Allenspark, Colorado, United States
St. Catherine of Siena Chapel on the Rock is a living mountain chapel within Camp St. Malo Shrine in Allenspark, United States. Camp St....
St. Louis Cathedral
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity. At St. Louis Cathedral, sacred life continues through Mass at St....
St. Patrick's Cathedral
New York, New York, United States
St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, New York, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity. At St. Patrick's Cathedral, sacred life continues through Mass at St....
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
Stone Mountain rises 825 feet above the Georgia Piedmont, a massive quartz monzonite monadnock that dominated the horizon for the Muscogee Creek and Cherokee who held it...
Superstition Mountains, Arizona
Apache Junction, Arizona, United States
The Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix hold sacred significance for three Indigenous peoples....
Sweet Grass Hills, Montana
Whitlash, Montana, United States
Rising more than 3,000 feet above the Montana prairie, the Sweet Grass Hills hold a distinctive place in Native American sacred geography: this is where the Sun Dance was...
Tamanowas Rock Santuary, Washington
Port Townsend, Washington, United States
A 150-foot volcanic monolith rising from Olympic Peninsula forest, Tamanowas Rock has served Coast Salish peoples as a place of vision quests and sacred ceremony for over...
Taos Pueblo
Taos, New Mexico, United States
Taos Pueblo is not a museum, not a reconstruction, not a relic. It is a community....
Tecate Peak, California
Tecate, California, United States
Tecate Peak, known to the Kumeyaay as Kuuchamaa, 'The Exalted High Place,' stands among the most sacred sites of the Kumeyaay people....
Temple Emanu-El
New York, New York, United States
Temple Emanu-El in New York, New York, belongs within Judaism. At Temple Emanu-El, sacred life continues through Jewish prayer at Temple Emanu-El, Torah reading at Temple...
Temple Square
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, belongs within Latter Day Saint Restoration traditions....
The Sorrowful Mother Shrine
Bellevue, Ohio, United States
In the rolling farmland of northern Ohio, pilgrims have sought solace at this Marian shrine for over 170 years....
Tolay Lake
Sonoma County, California, United States
For at least four thousand years, medicine people traveled from across what is now the western United States—and as far as Mexico—to gather at Tolay Lake....
Touro Synagogue
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, belongs within Judaism. At Touro Synagogue, sacred life continues through Jewish prayer at Touro Synagogue, Torah reading at...
Truchas Peak, New Mexico
Mora County, New Mexico, United States
Truchas Peak rises to 13,102 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the second highest point in New Mexico....
Two Medicine Lake, Montana
East Glacier Park, Montana, United States
At Two Medicine Lake, you stand within what the Blackfeet call Miistakis—the Backbone of the World. This is not metaphor....
Ute Mountain, New Mexico
Taos County, New Mexico, United States
Ute Mountain is a solitary volcanic cone rising nearly 2,500 feet above the sagebrush plains of northern New Mexico....
Vortex at Boynton Canyon, Sedona
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Boynton Canyon holds the creation story of the Yavapai-Apache people, who understand this as the literal birthplace of their nation....
Vortex at Cathedral Rock, Sedona
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Cathedral Rock rises from the Sedona landscape like hands raised in prayer, its twin spires reflected in the waters of Oak Creek below....
Waiānuenue (Rainbow Falls)
Hilo, Hawaiʻi, United States
Waiānuenue, commonly called Rainbow Falls, is part of the Wailuku River landscape in Hilo....
Waimea Falls
Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, United States
Waimea Falls on Oʻahu is identified by Waimea Valley's own custodial interpretation as a sacred place....
Wallowa Lake, Oregon
Joseph, Oregon, United States
At the foot of Oregon's Wallowa Mountains, a glacial lake holds the heart of Nez Perce homeland....
Washington National Cathedral
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Washington National Cathedral in Washington, District of Columbia, belongs within Episcopal Christianity....
White Sands, New Mexico
Otero County, New Mexico, United States
White Sands rises as the largest gypsum dune field on Earth, 275 square miles of brilliant white undulation that visitors describe as stepping onto another planet....
Willamette Falls
Oregon, United States
Willamette Falls is a place of enduring importance to several Native nations in the Pacific Northwest....
Wind Cave, South Dakota
Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States
Deep in the Black Hills, Wind Cave holds the most sacred story of the Lakota people: this is where humanity emerged from the spirit world into the physical world....
Wizard Island, Crater Lake, Oregon
Klamath County, Oregon, United States
Wizard Island rises from the impossible blue of Crater Lake, a volcanic cinder cone within a caldera formed when Mount Mazama collapsed 7,700 years ago....
Wupatki National Monument
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Wupatki National Monument in Flagstaff, Arizona, belongs within Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations....
Zion National Park
Springdale, Utah, United States
For over eight centuries, the Southern Paiute have known these canyon walls as sacred homeland, a landscape alive with spiritual power they call Puha....
Zuni Lake, New Mexico
Catron County, New Mexico, United States
Zuni Salt Lake lies in New Mexico within a sacred landscape connected with Zuni and other Indigenous communities....
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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 238 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.