Wupatki National Monument

Good afternoon.
To continue on our trip......
After the volcanic crater, we headed a little north to Wupatki National Monument.
This is a park that has numerous ancient Pueblo ruins.
It's amazing they were able to live out here in all this desolate nothingness. They built all the Pueblo's on massive rocks instead of on the ground. I imagine it was for safety, from attack or animals.

But they did say the area could have been more hospitable for them back then.

It was very interesting to see what they were able to build with what little they had to work with.

Now this path out to the ruins was made by the park. They didn't want you to walk off the path so not to disturb any area that might be of importance to researchers.

This was the largest of all of them. A massive complex of rooms.  We saw several others, but none as impressive as the two I've posted here.

After this, we headed back to Flagstaff and had dinner at the Lumberyard. An old actual lumber yard building that has been converted into a brewery/restaurant. Very busy and good food.
Tomorrow, our trip to Sedona and Prescott.