Balcony House and tourists on exit route
Enid had visited here when she was young, and often spoke of the cliff dwellings. They must have impressed her then, as she has always had a strong interest in culture and anthropology. I know that she certainly enjoyed seeing the dwellings over the past two days.
We drove and walked to many viewpoints today. We saw the history of the area displayed in archaeological sites that began in about AD 600, until the area was abandoned in the late 1200’s. We also spent quite a bit of time in the museum, which is an older museum, but has some good artifacts from this area, from archaic times to the ancestral puebloans.
Deer in campground
It is definitely fall here. The leaves on the sides of the mountains have almost all turned color, so it was a very pretty drive up to the top of the mesa today. The campsite is very nearly empty, and the mule deer feel free to roam throughout the sites.