BGuthrie Photos: AZ -- Canyon de Chelly Natl Memorial

AZ -- Canyon de Chelly Natl Memorial:

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1. CDC_000911_09.JPG: White House in Between
2. CDC_000911_16.JPG: Sliding House Ruins
3. CDC_000911_22.JPG: Spider Rock @ Canyon de Chelly
4. CDC_000911_28.JPG: Anasazi -- The Ancient Ones
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Wikipedia Description: Canyon de Chelly National Monument
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Canyon de Chelly National Monument, established April 1, 1931 as a unit of the National Park Service, is located in northeastern Arizona, within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. The monument covers 131 square miles (339 km�) and encompasses the floors and rims of the three major canyons: de Chelly, del Muerto, and Monument. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument.

Its 83,840 acres (339 km�), all nonfederal, preserve artifacts of the early indigenous tribes that lived in the area, including the Ancient Pueblo Peoples (also called Anasazi) and Navajo.

Canyon de Chelly is unique among National Park service units, as it consists entirely of Navajo Tribal Trust Land that remains home to the canyon community. Access to the canyon floor is restricted, and visitors are allowed to travel in the canyons only when accompanied by a park ranger or an authorized Navajo guide. The only exception to this rule is the White House Ruin Trail. Most park visitors arrive by automobile and view Canyon de Chelly from the rim, following both North Rim Drive and South Rim Drive. Ancient ruins and geologic structures are visible, but in the distance, from turnoffs on each of these routes.

The National Monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1970.

A spectacular geologic feature is Spider Rock, a sandstone spire that rises 800 feet (240 m) from the canyon floor at the junction of Canyon de Chelly and Monument Canyon. Spider Rock can be seen from South Rim Drive. It has served as the scene of a number of television commercials.

Name:

The name Chelly (or Chelley) is a Spanish borrowing of the Navajo word Ts�yi', which meaning "canyon". The Navajo pronunciation is IPA: [ts�?i?]. The Spanish pronunciation of de Chelly [det?e?i] was adapted into English, apparently through modelling after a French-l ...More...
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- 2006_AZ_Canyon_De_Chelly: AZ -- Canyon de Chelly Natl Memorial (28 photos from 2006)
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2000 photos: Image quality isn't going to be very good because these are scans of prints. In 2000, I was using a Pentax ME Super SLR camera. This was way before I went digital so the images you see on this site were manually scanned from the original prints, some 4x6 and some 5x7. The scaffolding that was being used on the Washington Momnument came down in March so you'll see it disappear this year. In 2000, I took three weeks and drove across country in my new Saturn station wagon -- taking the northern route through Montana and other places, arriving in San Francisco (a place I'd always wanted to visit), and then returning via a southern route. The cross-country drive meant that I took pictures in a 20 different states (an annual record for me) as well as one foreign country.
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