About an hour North of home near Sedona is the Red Tank Draw. I found this place by watching a few videos, reading other blogs and asking around a little. There are petroglyphs here from the Sinagua people that lived here from 1150 to 1400ad. My main goal was to find the handprint, which is…
An easy 1.5 mile hike will put you off the i17 freeway and into the Agua Fria National Monument at the Richinbar Mine. From 1905 to 1948 the Richinbar Mine was owned by 3 different companies mining the earth for gold, silver, copper and lead. Today, remnants of the mine still exist, as well as…
A fun trip I had a little while back. It’s somewhat remote, and just amazing landscape. Petroglyphs are from 2 different people that lived here, the Hohokam, and the Patayan. The Patayan came later, but both lived here from about 800ad to 1400 ad. There are also a number of names etched into the rocks…
The wifey and I took a 1.5 hour down to the Verde Valley to get a little hike in. It’s only a 1 mile round trip hike with a 400 feet climb in elevation. At the end of the trail are caves that were used by the Hohokam Indians which lived there until about 1400…
Today I went out to Agua Fria National Monument to scout out some old Native American ruins. I didn’t want to stop at the publicized “Pueblo Plata”, I wanted to go deeper in, about 1 hour on dirt roads to see one that was less visited by modern day people. Don’t get me wrong, people…
Met up with a small group of archaeological enthusiasts and explored some areas outside of Superior AZ. The now abandoned city of Pinal of which all that remains are some bricks, rusty metal equipment, a few bricks and old foundations from buildings which were used for mining. Evidence of the high volume of traffic here…
