Walnut Canyon

3D Model

Just outside Flagstaff, Arizona, Walnut Canyon is famous for its Native American houses built into caves washed out by water about a third of the way down the canyon wall. Not spoken of, and I cannot believe nobody noticed, that the caves are washed out because the water level in the canyon was at that level for thousands of years. There is even an obvious waterline a couple feet below those caves.

Unlike many places built into cliffs that were deliberately chosen as easy to defend, and difficult access, these houses were smaller than the Clif Dwellings and obvious (to my eyes) built because they were sheltered and easy access to the very deep water of the canyon, that any small boat could access any of the caves on either side.

Today you could wade across the river hundreds of feet below and huge Ponderosa Pines are to be found along the banks along that bottom,liooking like tiny models instead of the large trees that they are.How those things came to be I cannot imagine or find along that river.