This is the fifth and final page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 CASTLES IN CAVES IN THE CLIFFS! (OH, MY!) Click any photo to expand the image to...
This is the fourth page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 Click any photo to expand the images to full-screen. DUCK ROCK We got back in my Jeep and...
This is the third page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 PETROGLYPH ROCK A short distance from Newspaper Rock, just a few steps away along the base...
This is the second page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 I’m an Arizona native with a background in anthropology, and I’ve always been fascinated...
The high desert of the Colorado plateau is a vast territory, an all but empty landscape edged by sere, weathered mountains. There are few towns, but there are many lonely homesteads, tiny communities of doublewides and ramshackle prefabs, some with a six-sided hogan,...
This is the 4th and final Page of a longer article: Click here to return to Page 1 Most visitors to Canyon de Chelly National Monument focus the bulk of their attention on the South Rim Drive, but in my view, your trip simply won’t be complete if you don’t...
This is Page 3 of a longer article: Click here to return to Page 1 WHITE HOUSE OVERLOOK UPDATE UPDATE AUGUST 2025 UPDATE UPDATE White House Overlook and Trail are OPEN! After a “temporary closure” that lasted more than five years, the National Park...
This is Page 2 of a longer article: Click here to return to Page 1 THERE ARE SEVEN OVERLOOKS ON THE SOUTH RIM OF THE CANYON: Indian Route 7 begins at the turnoff from US 190, and serves as the main road in the Navajo town of Chinle. If you follow it headed east, it...
Canyon de Chelly (“D’Shay”) is a geological marvel of the first order, a hidden treasure, tucked away in a remote section of the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona. It’s one of the more striking features of the Colorado Plateau, where sediments from an ancient...
What do you call it when you stumble across something wonderful that you didn’t know anything about in advance? Some people say that’s just good old-fashioned luck, while folks that are a bit more full of themselves tend to consider it fate, or destiny....
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