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The 1.5-mile trail through Tsankawi takes the viewer along centuries-old paths of the ancestral Pueblo people. [1] In many areas, the trails have been worn into the rock 8 to 24 inches or more, as the natives traveled from the mesa tops to their farms in the canyons below.
The site was a large adobe pueblo consisting of a large plaza, great kiva, and small plazas with multiple-storied blocks of rooms and smaller kivas.Its height of occupation was between 1260 [nb 1] and 1320 CE.
It features a visitor center with a museum, three short self-guided trails, two small primitive campgrounds that are free to the public, and a picnic area. The Sandal Trail is an accessible self-guided 1.3 mi (2.1 km) roundtrip trail that ends at an overlook of the Betatakin ruins across the 560 ft (170 m) deep Betatakin Canyon.
Ruins with as many as 25 rooms. [2] [3] Arroyo Hondo: Tano Galisteo: Great House Ruins located on the Galisteo Basin also known as Kua-Kay. 24 great houses with about 1200 rooms total, each about three stories high, surrounded eight plazas, and had at least eight kivas. The inhabitants also constructed an acequia system (irrigation ditch) from ...
Archaeologists discovered a trove of artifacts dating back about 2,300 years, officials said.
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico.Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.
Ruins located in the Sierra Ancha Wilderness. Elden: Sinagua: Flagstaff: Ruins Homolovi: Ancestral Puebloan Winslow: Ruins located at Homolovi State Park Honanki: Sedona Ruins Indian Mesa: Hohokam Peoria: Lake Pleasant Regional Park: Village Ruins Inscription House: Ancestral Pueblo Kayenta: Navajo Reservation: Grand house Ruins located at the ...
Overlook Mountain is the southernmost peak of the Catskill Escarpment in the central Catskill Mountains near Woodstock, New York.The centerpiece of the 590-acre (240 ha) Overlook Mountain Wild Forest area of Catskill Park, the mountain is the site of one of the remaining five Catskill Mountain fire towers and the Overlook Mountain House, a hotel which was built at a higher elevation than any ...