Walnut Canyon Ntnl Monument

Walnut Canyon National Monument is located about 10 miles southeast of downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, near Interstate 40. The canyon rim elevation is 6,690 ft; the canyon’s floor is 350 ft lower. A 0.9 mi long loop trail descends 185 ft  into the canyon passing 25 cliff dwelling rooms constructed by the Sinagua, a pre-Columbian cultural group that lived in Walnut Canyon from about 1100 to 1250 CE

I made sure to take the short hike, 240 stairs half-way down to the canyon floor, to view some of the cliff dwellings. Some were across the canyon while others I was even able to enter. Most were near destroyed thanks to us ‘white men’ in the 1800’s and early 1900’s.