Sunday, June 12, 2011

Three Kiva Pueblo Neighbors

The Three Kiva Pueblo is an accessible Ancestral Pueblo ruins site in the Montezuma Canyon in southeast Utah. Much of the floor of Montezuma Canyon is private property but there are several small ruins sites that can be viewed from the road.

 Three Kiva Pueblo is about 27.7 miles south from the north end of Montezuma Canyon Road. High on the cliffs to the east of Three Kiva a small storage structure is visible with binoculars under an overhanging rock. (It is in this picture but is hard to see.)

 A small granary site is about 0.8 miles north. There is a side road leading to the area below the structure.



The largest site that I saw was 2.9 miles north. There are several cliff structures in a wide alcove with some rubble structures below. 

This site has a protective fence in front. This site also has a loop side road leading to the site.
 

The northern area of the Montezuma Canyon has many alcoves. Most are hard to see from the road but there is one where some wall fragments are clear. This site is about 13.4 miles north of the Three Kiva site. Traveling slowly along the 35 miles of Montezuma Canyon and stopping when I though I saw something took about 3 hours. There are more sites than I mention here and probably more that I missed.



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