Medicine Mountain Medicine Wheel
The Medicine Wheel on Medicine Mountain was a bucket-list place for me, and one I’m extremely grateful I had to opportunity to visit. Located at over 9,600, the 82-foot diameter stone wheel lies… Continue reading
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The PUP Chronicles, Part 2: Dark But Not-So-Silent Nights
Our second adventure with the pop-up camper (PUP) was a 3 day affair in the northwestern section of Gila National Forest. At more than 4 hours drive time from Las Cruces this area… Continue reading
Petroglpyhs and Dinosaur Tracks in Parowan Canyon
Parowan Gap, a 3-mile long wind gap first cut into the bedrock by an ancient river, is an interesting geological feature that has long attracted visitors, from migrating prehistoric tribes to Mormon pioneers… Continue reading
Three Rivers Petroglyph Site and a Bit of Hiking in Lincoln National Forest
The next weekend excursion took us to Three Rivers Petroglyph site, an area that contains an amazing 20,000 petroglyphs left by the Jornada Mogollon peoples. The mile long ridge on which the images… Continue reading
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Two days after Christmas we left Utah, traveling south for an 11-week trip. After a full day of driving we made our first stop at Casa Grande National Monument, a Hohokam archaeological site… Continue reading
Wupatki National Monument
Following the eruption of Sunset Volcano in the 11th century, thousands of prehistoric people came to settle on the high plains north of modern Flagstaff immediately surrounding the 1,000-foot cinder cone. Within this… Continue reading
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Like Homol’ovi, Walnut Canyon tells another part of the great migration stories of the peoples who lived in the Southwest in the 11th – 15th centuries. Following the volcanic eruption that created Sunset… Continue reading
Homol’ovi State Park
Homol’ovi State Park preserves a cluster of villages that were occupied between ca. 1250 and 1400 AD and thus provide archaeologists with an important link in reconstructing the migration of ancient peoples in… Continue reading
Petrified Forest National Park
Well, the storm I wrote about waiting out in my last post left northern New Mexico slick with seriousl layers of ice and snow. I had planned to continue north to visit archaeological… Continue reading
Petroglyph National Monument
Petroglyph National Monument protects an area containing over 20,000 petroglyphs etched into the basalt boulders that have broken off the 17-mile-long volcanic escarpment on the western outskirts of Albuquerque. Although most of these… Continue reading