Category: Gallo Campground, Chaco Culture HNP
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Drive to Mesa Verde
August 1, 2022 The 17-mile drive out of Chaco Canyon is excruciating. Roads in the park are paved, but for five miles it is one of the worst roads I have ever driven, and I have driven some rough roads searching for trout. Five miles an hour was my average speed for those five miles.…
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Chaco Culture National Historic Park Loop Drive
Saturday, July 30, 2022 65 deg at 6:00 am, cloudy We took the Loop Drive through Chaco Valley, stopping first at the Visitor’s Center. Behind the center was a 1-mile hike to Una Vida and some petroglyphs. It was pretty impressive. “Una Vida is a Chacoan “great house,” a large pre-planned multi-storied public building with…
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Chaco Culture National Historic Park 1
Friday, July 29, 2022 We were supposed to take a jeep tour of Canyon de Chelly (pronounced “shay” or tsegi in Navajo), but Bobby VanWinkle came to our campsite, and said the Navajo park chief closed the park to visitors. It is monsoon season and Chinle Wash has been a raging river. A truck sinks…