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This is a photo from across the canyon. |
You have to pay to take this 1 hour tour led by a ranger. The path leading to the dwelling has a gate to keep people from wandering around on their own. |
There is only one ladder on the way to the dwelling. |
We looked up one of the towers. The floors, except for the juniper beams, are gone and you can see art work on some of the walls. I saw this design and the one in the next photo. |
What looks like windows are actually the entry ways. Ladders on the outside lead up to the different levels. The walls are plastered. The outside walls were also plastered. |
Every 1/2 hour a group of 50 is led to the dwelling. |
We traversed lots of steps through narrow crevices on the way back to the top of the mesa. |
Nolan coming up the ladders we had to climb to get back on top. The Ancestral Puebloans climbed the cliffs using small hand and toe holds they chiselled. |
The following few photos are other cliff dwellings we saw. This one's hard to see. |
Double click to enlarge this info panel to read about Square Tower House, the tallest dwelling in the park. |
Square Tower House. |
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Spruce Tree House |
The path to Spruce Tree House is all paved but steep in places. |
Spruce Tree House again. |
Some parts of the park had been engulfed in flames during the last decade. |
The landscape in these parts were very barren. |
Others were covered in juniper and pinyon pine |
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Pithouses were the dwellings most used around 550 A.D. when the mesa tops were starting to be inhabited. |
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The highlight of Nolan's day was seeing coyotes. We saw two white ones when we were eating lunch but didn't get photos. |
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I really commend the beauty or those Spruce Tree House, very well built.
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