Durango is a small city in southwestern Colorado, near the New Mexico border. 421
Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah, USA
The Canyonlands National Park is a redrock woodcut engraved by the wind’s and water’s big, slow chisels. The overlook from Horse Point State Park provides a breathtaking panorama of Canyonlands. 420
Arches National Park, Utah, USA
Arches National Park is known as the site of more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches. 419
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA
Mesa Verde National Park protects thousands of archaeological sites, including hundreds of cliff dwellings. 418
Window Rock Tribal Park (Arizona), Shiprock (New Mexico), and Chimney Rock (Colorado), USA
I photographed the three distinguished-looking rock formations while traveling from Gallup, New Mexico, to Cortez, Colorado. 417
Canyons of The Ancients Visitor Center, Escalante Pueblo and Lowly Pueblo, Colorado, USA
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is a national monument protecting an archaeologically significant landscape. 416
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Nageezi, New Mexico, USA
The massive buildings of the Ancestral Puebloan people still testify to the organizational and engineering abilities not seen anywhere else in the American Southwest. 415
Gallup Downtown and Residence Area, New Mexico, USA
With the Navajo Nation, Pueblo of Zuni, and the Hopi Reservation nearby, Gallup is truly the gateway to the Native American experience. 414
Zuni Pueblo, Zuni, New Mexico, USA
Zunis have occupied the site that they call “the middle place” for at least 700 years. 413