Et Al Great House

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: .02 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 6526 - 6535 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 20 mins.
Trailhead: 37.41088, -109.94807
Fee: $5/person/day
Attractions: pueblo ruins

The Et Al Great House is in the Cedar Mesa Area of Bears Ears National Monument west of Blanding and Bluff, Utah. Et Al is a term archeologist use to describe a network of Cedar Mesa sites that include great kivas, shrines, roads, and other monumental features. The Et Al Great House site includes the rubble pile ruins of a minimum of 35 rooms and at least 2 kivas.

Arch Canyon Ruins Overlook

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.9 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 6251 - 6299 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 1 hrs. 30 mins.
Trailhead: 37.56824, -109.74118
Fee: $5/person/day, $10/week
Attractions: cliff dwellings, rock art

Arch Canyon is located west of Blanding, Utah in the Bears Ears National Monument. About 4 miles up the canyon from Comb Wash there is towering ridge that juts out into the canyon. On the end of the ridge is a solitary monolith. Tucked away up high on the south side of this peninsula there are a number of almost inaccessible cliff dwelling type ruins that can be easily viewed from overlooks on the opposite side of the canyon. Near the trailhead there are some painted hands pictographs and a few petroglyphs.

Fry Canyon Ruin

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 100 feet
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5261 - 5269 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 15 mins.
Trailhead: 37.64973, -110.15914
Fee: none
Attractions: cliff dwelling

The Fry Canyon Ruins are located just off of Utah Highway 95 about 22.5 miles south of Hite, Utah. Tucked away inside a large alcove in the bottom of Fry Canyon, near its junction with the much longer White Canyon, the mostly well preserved ruins are visible from an overlook.

South Fork Owl Creek

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 1.8 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 6294 - 6352 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 3 hrs.
Trailhead: 37.47711, -109.86970
Fee: $5/person/day or $10/week
Attractions: cliff dwellings

Ruins can be found all along the South Fork of Owl Creek in the Cedar Mesa Area of Bears Ears National Monument west of Blanding, Utah. This post covers the first 4 or 5 ruins that are on the east upper end of the South Fork.

Little Citadel

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 3.6 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 6065 - 6421 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 2 hrs.
Trailhead: 37.37124, -109.88963
Fee: $5/person/day
Attractions: cliff dwellings

Little Citadel is a set of cliff dwelling ruins that tower above Lime Canyon in the Cedar Mesa Area of Bears Ears National Monument west of Bluff, Utah. Like the more well know Citadel site it sits out on the point of a ridge that juts out into the canyon below. Found at the site is a kiva with several rooms attached and a handful of granaries or storage rooms that are stretched out along the ledge. Near the middle of all of these ruins is the remains of what was once a large square 2 story structure.