This weekend, I will be heading for an overnighter at Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
It is about a hour and forty-five minute drive from Jamestown (77 miles).
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| Above, the great kiva in the plaza of Chetro Ketl at Chaco Culture National Historical Park. National Park Service photo. |
Here's a little about it (from National Parks Traveler):
“It’s not like going to a national park,” said Matthew Campbell, on his second visit from his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home. “It’s a spiritual experience. It’s a different feeling.”
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is an atypical national park. The massive, thousand-year-old pueblos blend mysteriously into the towering canyon walls. Mystery and curiosity are among the top reasons thousands of visitors make the intentional trek far from paved roads deep into the Navajo Nation.
“I thought it was time for Edward to experience (Chaco Culture),” added Campbell.
Standing on the plaza at Hungo Pavi pueblo next to the large kiva, Matthew and Edward Donham-Stradling, also from Albuquerque, are astonished by the 150-room great house. Built nearly 1,000 years ago, Hungo Pavi is one of 16 such villages readily explored at Chaco Culture. The pueblo looks much as it did in 1847 when a U.S. Military survey team first visited the canyon. Chaco is a national park people visit for more than scenery.
Located between Crownpoint and Nageezi, Navajo Nation, New Mexico, it’s a trip visitors intend to make. In the Gallo Campground, the only accommodations within the park, it’s common for campers to be on their second or third visit.
For more on Chaco Culture National Historical Park, go here.
Since the tribal parks of the Navajo Nation have reopened (at 50% and with some restrictions), I will probably head over to the Hubbell Trading Post in Arizona next week. I was planning to go there last year, but the trading post was closed due to the pandemic a day or two of my planned trip there.
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| Above, an early photo of the Hubbell Trading Post. |
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