Mesa Verde National Park is the best known example of cliff dwellings, although we have visited two others that are National Monuments (in the Gila and around Roosevelt Lake). The ruins in those places are stunning, and fairly well preserved.
But we got to do something quite different today. We camped in Comb Wash in the Cedar Mesa Grand Gulch area. Got a fairly nice site.
We hiked up the dirt road for about two miles and then entered a canyon where there were a number of ruins that dotted the area.
It was exciting to see something like this without anyone else around.
The area has experienced a large amount of rain, and so the hiking was a little more difficult than usual.
In fact, off to our west we could see more storm clouds gathering, so we hustled back to our home. We only touched the surface of what there is to see in this canyon, so decided to come back in a year when we could explore further.
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