The first five pics are from the internal memory of my camera
There was water here before it was dammed up upstream
One of the more visible cliff dwellings
We climbed up from Verde Valley at 3500 feet and reached well up in the
six thousands by the time we turned east on I-40. We are at the Meteor
Crater RV Park at exit 233 on I-40 and on the road to the crater. This
is a very nice park with large pull-thrus, FHU and 50Amp service.
Instead of going to the Crater today, we went to Walnut Canyon. What a
beautiful place. The visitor center looks out and over the canyon that
has a rock island in the center. Around the edge of the outer rim are
numerous cliff dwellings of the Sinagua Indians dating to the 1100's.
There is a 1 mile extremely arduous trail around the island with a
decent of more than 250 steps, and the corresponding climb back up. We
only went a little ways down there to take pictures. There would be
more, but I left the camera's SD card in the computer, so I only had the
internal memory. Lesson Learned!! Tomorrow morning we will head out to the Meteor Crater and then we'll do about 75 miles to a park near the Petrified Forrest. We'll spend a few nights there and one day we'll head up to Canyon de Chelly.
The "Island" from the visitor center
The wildlife in the canyon
The visitor center is top right in this view from the rim trail
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