After leaving Jemez Springs, we headed to a part of New Mexico previously unknown to us - the Four Corners region. Although our original plan was to go up into Colorado and visit Mesa Verde, we revised that plan after realizing that we preferred a more leisurely pace, and that we wouldn't really have enough time to do justice to Mesa Verde. Instead, we turned left off highway 550 and headed down a dirt road toward Chaco Culture National Historic Park. It turned out to be a great decision.
It's an amazingly beautiful place, and one that receives relatively few visitors - which suits us just fine. We enjoyed a picnic lunch (mmm, prune pies) at the Visitor Center and then walked the trails through the impressive ruins of four different Chacoan "great houses".
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves:
It's an amazingly beautiful place, and one that receives relatively few visitors - which suits us just fine. We enjoyed a picnic lunch (mmm, prune pies) at the Visitor Center and then walked the trails through the impressive ruins of four different Chacoan "great houses".
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves:
Brendan at Una Vida great house
Cheryl at Hungo Pavi great house
The Great Kiva at Chetro Ketl great house
Rear wall of Chetro Ketl
Brendan at Pueblo Bonito
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