July 14, 2006
This park is the most interesting for me. It is filled with multistoried dwelling, filling the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above the Montezuma Valley. They have found over 600 dwellings. Each time there is a forest fire in a new area, they find another dwelling.
We had to climb up ladders & we even crawled through a tunnel on our hands & knees. It was really neat to do this. Difficult for me, but neat to do.
The dwellings were built around AD 750. The Anasazi Indians left the area around 1270. The dwellings were discovered in 1888 by cowboys passing through the canyon looking for stray cattle.
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