American Indian Trails of the West

Northern Arizona’s Ancient PueblosThe Colorado Plateau’s past is open for discovery from Wupatki to Walpi. The feeling at northern Arizona’s Wupatki National Monument is of being one with the earth, wind and sky. The silence of the land is striking. Evidence shows that Wupatki was inhabited around 500 A.D., but the actual pueblo was built and occupied from 1100 until 1250 A.D. Roughly 900 years ago, a massive volcanic eruption occurred, creating Sunset Crater, a dozen miles from Wupatki.