Painted Hand Pueblo

Another lovely sunny morning and a trip to Painted Hand Pueblo, part of Canyons of the Ancients. A very small brown sign points the way down a red dirt road, and yes we did shoot past and have to turn around.

The red dirt road is driveable by passenger car, carefully, but is much easier with the truck.

At the parking area we followed the trail, and as with most pueblos it is situated on the edge of a canyon.

Yes, we did climb down here and back up again as well, obviously the Ancestral Puebloans were much fitter than us!

At the bottom we reached the first tower.

The tower is built on a boulder with the remains of rooms underneath. There is a huge sign nearby asking you not to touch the petroglyphs and pictographs. Hmm, they must be there somewhere, but this time we just couldn’t see them for looking, we were probably staring right at them and just didn’t realise what they were.

In some of the mortar you can actually see the fingerprints of the Puebloan builders.

Painted Hand is a beautiful place with far reaching views across the valley and to the mountains in Utah.

Have fun, we are!