Hovenweep National Monument (1649)

Hovenweep National Monument is probably my favorite of the Native American ruins. Like Walnut Canyon (see earlier pictures of this trip), it has a 2 mile loop around multiple structures and no one structure dominates, thus it has the feel of having once been a fairly active village. Unlike the other collections of structures in the area, this is not very visited, thus it is easy to spend time on the trail reflecting on what life was once like here. Per the park service, the structures were built between 1200 and 1300 AD (CE). What is seen in these pictures is structures in the Square Tower group, there are five other prehistoric villages around Hovenweep, but all of those are on unpaved roads and are less accessible