Mesa Verde: Snowflakes, Telescopes, and Stone Palaces
Mesa Verde with five kids at 8,000 feet — snow-dusted mesas, hundreds of ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings, and a scale that dwarfs the canyons before it.
Cliff Dwellings, Fruit Snacks, and the Island in the Canyon
300 steps down to 750-year-old Sinagua cliff dwellings — Walnut Canyon’s Island Trail near Flagstaff, walked with five kids and a lot of fruit snacks.