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The Wupatki National Monument is a United States National Monument located in north-central Arizona, near Flagstaff.Rich in Native American archaeological sites, the monument is administered by the National Park Service in close conjunction with the nearby Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.
Pinedale, Arizona: Ruins of a multistoried pueblo of 200–250 rooms, AD 1275–1325 ... Ruins located in the Wupatki National Monument. Canyon Creek Ruins:
Black Falls Dam during peak flow of the Little Colorado River, built adjacent to the natural lava dam as part of an irrigation project. Black Falls is a natural basalt rock dam and significant crossing place on the Little Colorado River in Coconino County, Arizona near the Wupatki National Monument.
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is a U.S. national monument created to protect Sunset Crater, a cinder cone within the San Francisco Volcanic Field. [14] The monument is managed by the National Park Service in conjunction with nearby Wupatki National Monument.
Solar petroglyph at Puerco Pueblo. The site contains over 800 petroglyphs, incised on more than 100 boulders. [8] One of the petroglyphs which has been uncovered at the site appears to show the migration path from the Puerco Pueblo to the Crack-in-the-Rock site, today located within the Wupatki National Monument, dating from approximately 1150.
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "National Park Service national monuments in Arizona" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Strawberry Crater is a cinder cone volcano, more than 1,000 feet (300 m) high, in the San Francisco volcanic field, 20 miles (32 km) north of Flagstaff, Arizona. [6] It is along Forest Road 545 between the Wupatki National Monument and Sunset Crater National Monument in the Strawberry Crater Wilderness. [5]
The rugged desert landscape of Northeast Arizona has been inhabited by indigenous peoples since at least the construction of what are now the ruins at Monument Valley, Navajo National Monument, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Northeast Arizona is arid, largely free of greenery, and characterized by hills, mesas, buttes, cliffs, and canyons.