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The Tusayan Ruins (aka Tusayan Pueblo) is an 800-year-old Pueblo Indian site located within Grand Canyon National Park, [2] and is considered by the National Park Service (NPS) to be one of the major archeological sites in Arizona. [3] The site consists of a small, u-shaped pueblo featuring a living area, storage rooms, and a kiva. [2]
As an incorporated town, Tusayan has a land area of only 144 acres (58 ha), or 0.225 square miles (0.58 km 2), making it the smallest town in Arizona by area. [ 5 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the census-designated place (CDP) in 2000 had a total area of 28.6 square miles (74 km 2 ), of which 28.6 square miles (74 km 2 ) is ...
January 3, 1995 (East Rim Drive, about 17 miles (27 km) east of Grand Canyon Village, Desert View: Grand Canyon National Park: Desert View Watchtower, designed by Mary Jane Colter, part of the Mary Jane Colter NHL district
Tusayan National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Arizona on July 1, 1910 with 1,830,487 acres (7,407.72 km 2) from part of Coconino National Forest and other lands. On October 22, 1934 the entire forest was transferred to Kaibab National Forest and the name was discontinued.
There are around 2,000 known Ancestral Pueblo archaeological sites in park boundaries. The most accessible site is Tusayan Pueblo, which was constructed sometime c. 1185 and housed 30 or so people. [3] Ancestral Pueblo food storage building ruins at Tusayan Pueblo
Tusayan Ruins; W. Wupatki National Monument This page was last edited on 22 August 2024, at 10:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Grand Canyon Village Historic District comprises the historic center of Grand Canyon Village, on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.. The district includes numerous landmark park structures, many of which are National Historic Landmarks themselves, or are listed on the National Register of Historic Pl
The national monument includes three large segments: to the south of Grand Canyon National Park, the 388,376 acres (1,571.70 km 2) entire Tusayan Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest; to the northeast, 529,242 acres (2,141.77 km 2) of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands south of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument and east of the forest's North Kaibab Ranger District, including House ...