Wupatki National Monument, in Arizona, is being considered for wilderness designation. The NPS wants your input on the plan for this fascinating, archaeologically rich area.
"Lomaki" means "beautiful house." Some 900 years ago, when the weather was cooler and wetter, ancestors of contemporary Pueblo communities created a bustling center of trade and culture that included Lomaki Pueblo at what is now Wupatki National Monument in Arizona.
From the Rocky Mountains to the West Coast and up to Alaska, there are thousands of historic structures and archaeological sites on National Park System landscapes. They range in variety from homesteader cabins to pre-historic cave dwellings.
How would you like to explore a little of the backcountry at Wupatki National Monument in Arizona? The park is offering three overnight backcountry hikes this April to the Pueblo site known as Crack in The Rock. All hikes are Saturday to Sunday and the hike dates for April are the 8-9, 15-16, and 22-23. Click here for more information. The application period closes on March 14, 2023.
More than a decade after determining that almost all of the acreage within Wupatki National Monument is eligible for wilderness designation, the National Park Service is seeking public comment on how much of the park should be proposed for wilderness designation.
Public input is being sought on a draft backcountry management plan for Wupatki National Monument, which protects ruins from an ancient civilization that cultivated a living from a site in present-day northern Arizona that evolved into a regional trading center of sorts before being abandoned after about 300 years.
Who owns the national parks? The answer used to be decisive – all Americans, and for all time. Indeed our national parks, proclaimed Wallace Stegner, are “the best idea we ever had.” But some of our citizens regard the national parks as evidence of dispossession, places stained by the sins of a nation that is not their own and whose history they now repudiate.
"Long time ago the ground trembled, a big black smoke came,” was the memory the Hopi passed from generation to generation. It was a thick, choking smoke, preceded no doubt by shuddering earthquakes and precipitated by a furious, explosive eruption that alternately darkened and lit up the sky for hundreds of miles around.