Visited: April 2018
In a town with a population of 225, I was having a hard time finding the elementary school. When I entered the address on the school and district website, all 3 map apps I had lead me to 3 different dilapidated buildings that clearly didn't have any children in them. Sooo I stopped in the state park and asked the ranger, whose daughter went there, and I got to tell her that her dad said hi :)
I toured the replica building, the actual remains of the buildings from the "Anasazi", and got a patch for my collection.
Why did I put "Anasazi" in quotes, you ask? Well, turns out, Anasazi is 1. A lazy blanket term that people have used to cover people all over the American Southwest, with no regard to the fact that there were many different kinds of tribes/people with different customs and 2. We have now learned that 'anasazi' is a Navajo word for "ancient enemies" that they used for Ancestral Puebloan people sooo I'm not a huge fan of this word. But it's the name of the state park, so alas.
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| Arrowhead collection in the museum |
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| Replica building |
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| In the replica building |
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| Actual excavation site |
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| View from the excavation site |
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| Patch collection from 4 days el oh el |
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