My Trip and hike to the Gila Cliff dwellings

[ichingcarpenter]

My daughter, my grandson and her man are visiting from Denmark and are catching the sites here in the land of enchantment. Yesterday we took a trip to the National Monument which is a 1.5 hour mountain drive from Silver City but only 38 miles through a narrow road with hairpins one after another.

Once you get to the main visitor center which has a small museum on their artifacts with a film on the Mogollon Tribe that built them(not the Anasazi ) you drive one mile to the site and then hike a mile up a beautiful mountain canyon to reach the site. The site could be easily defended and isolated from whatever made them build this

This is one of the only site where you can get close up to the rooms in the ruins of the cliff dwellers

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If you climb down the ladder you go down a different trail going back down


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[Deux Corbeaux]

The museum over there maintains a collection of artifacts recovered from the caves. The most famous find, discovered in 1912, a mummy of a child, has long been lost to the Smithsonian archives in Washington DC......
The mummy of the infant was later named “Zeke”...... (as if it could be someone’s son or sibling).