The Nohoch Mul pyramid, tallest in the northern Yucatán Peninsula, is climbable again

Nohoch Mul, the tallest pre-Columbian operation successful the bluish Yucatán Peninsula and 1 of the fewer climbable pyramids adjacent the Riviera Maya, is unfastened again for ascending aft six years of rehabilitation work.

The experience, however, volition beryllium considerably safer and little damaging to the operation than before. The way to the apical is present via a recently installed woody staircase, built by members of the adjacent assemblage of Noh Bec, who person extended acquisition successful crafting structures with determination wood. 

Cobá sigue revelando su historia.
Como parte del Programa de Mejoramiento de Zonas Arqueológicas #PROMEZA y gracias al trabajo de la comunidad ejidal y al @INAHmx, se reabrió el ascenso al Nohoch Mul.
Aquí, donde mujeres mayas ejercieron el poder hace siglos, celebramos que el… pic.twitter.com/QXGB9TlZjq

— Claudia Curiel de Icaza (@ccurieldeicaza) December 8, 2025

At 42 meters (140 feet) gangly and with 120 steps, Nohoch Mul is 1 of the architectural symbols of the past Maya metropolis of Cobá. It is simply a favourite taste tourism site, but its ascent had been suspended since 2019 owed to the deterioration of the archetypal steps, worsened by dense tourer traffic.

Culture Minister Claudia Curiel Icaza inaugurated the caller staircase successful an opening ceremonial connected Sunday. “On behalf of President Claudia Sheinbaum, I privation to reiterate that this enactment embodies our knowing of taste policy,” she said. “We judge that practice is simply a close for all, that caring for our territory is simply a nationalist good, and that conservation is simply a task that tin lone beryllium achieved successful collaboration with the community.”

The renovation enactment outgo 5 cardinal pesos (US $277,000) and was conducted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) arsenic portion of initiatives to heighten archaeological zones connected to the Maya Train project.

During the renovation works, INAH conducted a topographic survey of each measurement of Nohoch Mul, from its basal to its summit, to nutrient a elaborate exemplary of the hollows and reliefs. The collected information enabled experts to place precise locations for installing the woody staircase. The information besides guided preventive consolidation work, leveling of the steps, and micro-drilling for the insertion of the indispensable anchors.

According to INAH, the modern operation is approved by INAH’s Archaeology Council (CA) and was carried retired successful afloat compliance with planetary standards for the restoration of archaeological monuments. 

Tourists and section circuit guides said that the reopening of the staircase restores a cardinal acquisition of the site, allowing visitors to admit from above, erstwhile again, the expanse of the metropolis of Cobá and its surrounding jungle. 

With reports from El Economista and Milenio