Walnut Canyon National Monument

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Another amazing place to visit! Walnut Canyon is a place where the remains of 300 small 13th century cliff dwellings can be seen in the undercut layers of limestone. You can see them in many places in the canyon but the most fascinating is the Island Trail. This 0.9-mile loop passes 25 of the cliff dwelling rooms. They were inhabited by the Sinagua people 800 years ago.  The trail takes you around this steep round rock formation in the middle of the canyon. It is not really an island. But it is surrounded by a steep gorge.

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As you walk around the trail, you can learn a lot about the canyon life. I would like to show you what it looks today and what it looked in the past. Let’s have a tour of this complex and very unusual community!

First, look at the canyon:

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And now the cliff dwellings

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The water was at the bottom of the canyon and their crops were cultivated on top of the canyon, above their dwellings.

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