Date: October 3
Hikers: Me, Ricky Megan and Cristina
Location: Walnut Canyon, Flagstaff AZ
Distance: 1 miles
Rating: Moderate (stairs make you huff and puff)
Time: 30 minutes
Trailhead Link:http://www.nps.gov/waca/index.htm and http://www.nps.gov/waca/planyourvisit/island-trail.htm
I must admit this is not a new hike. I have been here three times now with different people on trips to Flagstaff. This is my first with the kids so I will call it new. (cheating)
This is a site of a pueblo community. You can see the dwellings and learn about the history of the tribes that once lived there. If you can not walk down or up stairs you can stand at the top of a couple lookouts. Once you are down the stair cases the hike around is very easy and beautiful. It is educational too. Amazing to think that people lived there and you wonder how they moved to the other dwellings that you see off the cliffs.
Enjoy the pictures and add this to your Flagstaff area visit. Worth the price of admission!!
I must admit this is not a new hike. I have been here three times now with different people on trips to Flagstaff. This is my first with the kids so I will call it new. (cheating)
This is a site of a pueblo community. You can see the dwellings and learn about the history of the tribes that once lived there. If you can not walk down or up stairs you can stand at the top of a couple lookouts. Once you are down the stair cases the hike around is very easy and beautiful. It is educational too. Amazing to think that people lived there and you wonder how they moved to the other dwellings that you see off the cliffs.
Enjoy the pictures and add this to your Flagstaff area visit. Worth the price of admission!!
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| View of the dwelling to the West |
Several flights of stairs to the Island Trail sign. The altitude and the many steps will get your heart rate up but not for long.
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| Steps don't bother Ricky |
LumberJack vs SunDevil
One of the many ruins you can walk in. You can see where people would live and what their life would be like.
Dwelling behind us makes you wonder how the heck these people moved from down here to up there. There are no baby gates on these "houses".
Team this visit to Walnut Canyon with Sunset Crater Volcano and Waputaki National Park. There is a pass that gets you in all three and they are so close. One of my favorite days spent in the area.
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| Cristina visiting the next door neighbors. I think they were short. |
Great Weekend visiting Megan the new NAU LumberJack!
Hike #29
Accomplished!
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