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Canyonlands and Monument Valley Country

Canyonlands, Arches, and Bears Ears National Parks and Monuments and the Monument Valley country of Utah

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Cave Springs Cowboy Camp

Cave Springs Cowboy Camp

This is an Ancestral Puebloan (Anazasi) site that cattle ranchers also used for camping. The site is inside the Needles District in Canyonlands National Park and what a neat find it is. Everything here is protected. Please do not touch or remove anything. Besides being illegal, once removed, the story

Hovenweep – Square Tower Group

Hovenweep – Square Tower Group

One of my favorite little national parks is Hovenweep National Monument. It is a quiet little area in the Four Corners part of Utah. It is one of the few campgrounds I actually enjoy visiting. Most of the towers and buildings of Hovenweep Castle and the Square Tower Group were

Montezuma Creek and the Three Kiva Pueblo

Montezuma Creek and the Three Kiva Pueblo

There are many small Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) ruins and Ute and Anasazi petroglyph sites scattered along Montezuma Creek. Some are hard to spot, so you have to keep an eye out for them. Near the middle of the canyon is Three Kiva Pueblo, where the BLM has restored one of

Newspaper Rock

Newspaper Rock

This is a large solitary panel in a nice shady canyon of eastern Utah. Petroglyphs from the Ancestral Puebloan (Anazasi), Fremont, and modern Ute are present. Multiple cultures have used the site for a long period of time, but why this spot? We may never know. GPS

Mule Canyon Ruins

Mule Canyon Ruins

This is an Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) ruin site with many ruined towers and cliff dwellings. I had read about this site some time ago and was eager to go check it out. The site is not hard to reach, but hours of hiking and climbing are required to reach some

Butler Wash Ruins

Butler Wash Ruins

Butler Wash is a long creek with Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) ruins scattered all along it. The BLM has created an overlook at one of the ruins in a side canyon of the wash. There is a nice natural bridge (arch) nearby, and I got some good shots of recent rainwater