Walnut Canyon National Monument - cliff dwellings with INCREDIBLE views! (23 of 419) 

Looks like a great place to check out! We love our cliff dwellings and the history behind it all. Crazy how well preserved these places are. Thanks for sharing guys! - Shane

Gorgeous! Thank you. Another terrific video.

We drive close by these beautiful places without ever getting to stop and enjoy. Maybe next time! Thanks to both of you for the inspiration!

We really enjoyed Walnut Canyon too.

Really great video we were thinking of visiting this site and now you're video helped confirm that we should go

The rocks were undoubtedly "laid down" 60 million years ago. They were "carved', and occupied, much nearer our own time. The Spaniards, judging by current conditions, ignored the obvious erosion cased by massive amounts of rushing water, called the area, and its (even then) long-gone peoples "sin agua", but the reason the Sin Agua people built those cliff dwellings was because that was where there was water, a lot of it. The canyon was filled, close to the level of the ruins, perhaps a dozen feet or less below. The ruins at the point, lower than the ruins further back, were built after the water had dropped significantly. When the water drained away, inevitably, not replenished by streams, the "Sin Agua" left, because they were "without water". This happened about 2,750 years ago. How they got there, and what happened that made the region the way it is today, is one of the great untold stories. Ancestors of the Sin Agua had trekked down the eastern flanks of the Canadian Rockies, entering the future continental US Along the way, the main group had shed smaller groups, brothers, cousins, friends, who'd wanted to venture easterly, instead of southerly. Their descendants, the Fremont People, probably arrived in central Utah about the time western civilization was emerging from the chaos of the previous 1,700 years, in the 7th Century BC. Unlike the wandering Jews, or the Greeks, Hittites, or Egyptians, all of whom had cultures around them, the Fremonts-soon-to-be-Anasazi might have encountered other survivors, most of whom they would have shunned, anyway, but some were absorbed into the fabric of the community. European men wouldn't arrive for more than two millennia, druing which time, those scattered groups of people would go on to populate the Americas, except for the southeastern US and much of eastern Mexico, in the coming millennia.

Hi there, Don from Victoria BC, really enjoying you southern states episodes as we are heading to that area in March. Found you two while researching outdoors rv, this will be our next rv

The early inhabitants probably shopped at Flagstaff. :-)

Thanks!!! Great views from trail!!! By the way, who counted the steps on the trail? 😃

Must have known earliest travelers were there by finding old credit card receipts. :-)

A.D.*