Probably there are very few if any towns in Arizona that can boast of the interesting surroundings of Flagstaff. Within a radius of ten miles are to be found the famous cliff dwellings ...

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The ruins were used by Sinagua cave dwellers during the 12th and 13th centuries. The Sinagua people also built Tuzigoot, Montezuma Castle, and other cliff dwellings in Arizona. Walnut Canyon ...

At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above Montezuma Valley. Remarkably preserved, the cliff dwellings cluster in ...

Nordenskiold took his shipment home to Scandinavia, where he published the first scientific study of the cliff dwellers. The controversy brought worldwide attention to the ruins, and to the fact ...

but warn that the road to reach the ruins is quite bumpy. There are three hiking trails at the Palatki Heritage Site – one that will take you directly to the Sinagua cliff dwellings, one that ...