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Canyon de Chelly National Monument

Parks Directory of the United States / US National Parks / National Monuments
Address:PO Box 588
Chinle, AZ 86503

Phone:928-674-5500
Fax:928-674-5507
Web: www.nps.gov/cach/
Size: 83,840 acres.
Established: Authorized on February 14, 1931.
Location:In northeastern Arizona. Visitor center is 3 miles from Route 191 in Chinle.
Facilities:Lodge, campground, picnic area, groceries, restaurant/snacks, visitor center, museum/exhibit, horse rental, jeep tours.
Activities:Camping, hiking, horseback riding, auto touring, interpretive programs, guided tours.
Special Features:At the base of sheer red cliffs and in canyon wall caves are ruins of Indian villages built between AD 350 and 1300. Modern Navajo Indians live and farm here. Park offers a 34-mile (round trip) North Rim Drive, with views of some of the most beautiful Navajo cliff dwellings in the area, and a 37-mile (round trip) South Rim Drive, with panoramic views of the canyons, the Defiance Plateau, and the Chuska Mountains.

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1--Map of Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Apache County, Arizona) and surrounding areas where movements of black bears (Ursus americanus) were studied.
Panoramic |view of Canyon de Chelly, below, Spider Rock, far left, and a brief stop-off on Route 66, above
Panoramic view of Canyon de Chelly, below, Spider Rock, far left, and a brief stop-off on Route 66, above
The collection includes portraits as well as images of weavers, musicians, Canyon de Chelly, Taos Pueblo and Taos cemetery.
Left: Blue Canyon de Chelly. ca 1985 Stoneware, glazed and sandblasted.
I never pick up hitch-hikers, but I had driven the stretch between Tsaille, where the four story Dine college rose out of the wilderness, down to the entrance of Canyon de Chelly, where I politely asked the well-groomed tourist guide if he had heard of road 24, which my friend had referenced.
A val sta Leaving Goulding's, we took the scenic drive to the Canyon de Chelly, a site of poignant significance to the Navajo.
This 300-mile journey is known as "The Long Walk." Late in 1868, the Navaho were set free and allowed to return to reservation land in an area in the Four Corners country near the Canyon de Chelly where the states of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico touch.
Highlights include photographs of Canyon de Chelly by Sandi and Walt O'Brien, 2 p.m.
More than 50 years after his signature works were taken, and 25 years after his death, Adams' photographs of Canyon de Chelly, Glacier, Grand Tetons, and Yosemite continue to be among the most popular images of our national parks.
Simonds is best known for small-scale clay sculptures of dilapidated brick buildings that recall the ancient cliff dwellings in Arizona's Canyon de Chelly and Peru's Machu Picchu, and are the homes, he says, of nomadic "little people." These structures stem from his earliest works, rituals of burial and rebirth he enacted in the clay pits of Sayreville, New Jersey--the "basis from which I began metaphorically," the artist says of these performances.
We have reservations at Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly, days until our flights.
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