diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index ad65f167..cae7199d 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ gem 'rails', '~> 5.2.8.1'
 gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.3.0"
 # Use pg as the production database for Active Record
 gem 'pg'
-# Use sitemap
-# See https://github.com/viseztrance/rails-sitemap
-gem 'sitemap'
 # Use Passenger as the app server
 # Update this when we update the Passenger docker container base image version
 gem 'passenger', '6.0.17', require: "phusion_passenger/rack_handler"
diff --git a/config/sitemap.rb b/config/sitemap.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c02484e..00000000
--- a/config/sitemap.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# frozen_string_literal: true
-
-Sitemap::Generator.instance.load(host: 'scholarspace.library.gwu.edu', protocol: 'https') do
-  path :root, priority: 1, change_frequency: 'weekly'
-  path :search_catalog, priority: 1, change_frequency: 'weekly'
-
-  read_group = ActiveFedora.index_field_mapper.solr_name('read_access_group', :symbol)
-  GwWork.where(read_group => 'public').each do |f|
-    literal Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.hyrax_gw_work_path(f, action: 'show'),
-            priority: 1, change_frequency: 'weekly'
-  end
-  GwEtd.where(read_group => 'public').each do |f|
-    literal Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.hyrax_gw_etd_path(f, action: 'show'),
-            priority: 1, change_frequency: 'weekly'
-  end
-end