Category: Canyon of The Ancients National Monument
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Canyon of The Ancients National Monument
August 9, 2022 53 degrees at 6:30 With 270,000 acres and hundreds of sites, there is a lot to explore and discover in Canyons of the Ancients. We opted to hike Sand Canyon Trail to Saddlehorn Pueblo and Double Cliff House for a 4-mile out-and-back hike. We were a little late getting started at 9:00,…
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Lowrey Pueblo, Canyon of The Ancients National Monument
Monday, August 8, 2022 Canyon of The Ancients is a massive 270,000 acres on the Sagebrush Plains in the southwest corner of Colorado with 30,000 Ancestral Puebloan ruins, and more being found. Humans have been here for 12,000 years. Starting around 750 AD they started farming and building homes, starting with clustered pit houses –…
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Moving to Canyon of The Ancients National Monument
Sunday, August 7, 2022 Only an hour drive from Mesa Verde National Park, I had a little maintenance to do. Someone described the inside of a travel trailer as being a small hurricane. Things get shaken loose. The latch had come loose on the door of the half-closet over my bed. I carry a dowel…