Walnut Canyon National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument protects a series of ancient cliff dwellings built between 1125 and 1250 CE.
Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have lived and traveled throughout Walnut Canyon’s dynamic landscape. Vibrant communities built their homes in the cliffs and farmed along the canyon’s rim. Today the park preserves this landscape, and the ancestral homes in and around the canyon.
Map showing location of park.
Photo by NPS Photo / Marge Ullmann
Photo by NPS Photo / Case Griffing
Photo by NPS Photo / Case Griffing
Photo by NPS Photo / Marge Ullmann