


Ancestral Puebloans
self guided tour
​Walk in the footprints of the ancestral Puebloans (also known as the Anasazi) the first people to farm here, growing maize, pumpkins, tobacco, corn, beans, and squash while designing complex water irrigation systems, meticulously crafted rock work dwellings, accomplished potters living in villages and communities well south of us, and north to Mesa Verde and beyond. We are privileged to have ancient sites on this land where you can meet them in a unique and intimate way. Descend into a restored kiva near the pueblo, sentient and cool, that smells like creation itself. A cliffside granary perches over the arroyo with an imagined ladder, where jeweled maize dried in the arid air. An unrestored kiva where "things happen." Make an offering. The whole place is an offering (we feel). Take the on-site archeological tour and find yourself beguiled with questions. Mud. Sky. Birds. And perhaps intimations from the past that draw us to consider how and who were are at a precipice in our own time.


"As I understand more of the Anasazi, it is hard to say that they ever truly vanished. The farther I track them, the more it seems they are right in front of me, until I can nearly feel the body heat left in their footsteps." -Craig Childs​
