Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Trip to Bluff

If you go to Bridges National Monument you can hike about 1.5 miles and 400 feet down into the canyon and see Kachina Bridge. This is the third largest natural bridge in the world. The second largest is three miles up the canyon. It was 220 feet high and 240 feet across.

While we stayed in Bluff we drove to different areas to find the rock art and Anasazi ruins. This kiva was close to Mule Canyon about 20 miles West of Blanding.

One of our favorite spots were the ruins at Monarch in the Comb Ridge near Butler Wash. Below is a photo of the ceiling above some of the ruins. Evidently the water leached through the rock and formed this delicate design. Art was literally everywhere, both naturally and manufactured by human hands.

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