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Morning mist lingers in the folds above the Gila River Valley and Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in New Mexico.
Surrounded by 560,000 acres of pristine wilderness, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is one of the more challenging National Park Service units to visit in the lower 48 states. Reachable only by narrow, winding mountain roads, its isolation has preserved not only the 700-year-old homes of the Mogollon people, but provides us a look back in time at the rugged natural landscape that sustained them.
After a successful stalk, a bobcat pauses before heading into deeper cover to finish her meal of freshly-caught Packrat. Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is much more than ancient ruins. Located in the heart of America's first designated wilderness, Cliff Dweller Canyon preserves a riparian oasis with a wide variety of wildlife, both predator and prey...
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