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| - In the Sonoran desert, near the Apache trail, lie the 600 year old cliff dwellings of the Salado, Pueblo, and Hohokam Indians. Based on the geographic location of the site, as well as differing architectural styles, archeologists and historians are still arguing about who actually lived here. Considering that the dwellings were inhabited for at least a three hundred year period, it is safe to assume that different tribes resided here.
Though many walls have fallen away due to erosion, human, and animal traffic, archeologists and researchers alike have been fervently working to stabilize, and restore the dwellings.
It is nearly a mile hike up the paved trail to the dwellings, and I was quite surprised that visitors could walk within its walls. When you take a moment to reflect on sheer size and scale of what these dwellings once had, how its inhabitants hoofed miles and miles uphill to habitate here, it is humbling. In contrast to the Montezuma Castle cliff dwellings, you can walk around all you want here, whereas Montezuma you can only admire from far far below.
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