Gisewatowa Pueblo

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Round Trip Distance: 0.3 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 6283 - 6316 feet
Cellphone: 3-5 bars
Time: 1 hr.
Trailhead: Jemez Historic Site
Fee: $7/adult - under 16 free
Attractions: Pueblo/Spanish Mission

The Gisewatowa (GEE-say-wah-tuu-wah), Pueblo is located at the Jemez Historic Site in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. The name translates to "Village by the Sulphur" which is a reference to the many hot springs in the area. By manually counting the number of rooms in the user guide the massive pueblo appears to have had over 200 rooms just in the bottom story. Some parts of the pueblo were as much as 3 stories high.

Painted Rock Petroglyph Site

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Round Trip Distance: 0.3 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 555 - 563 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 45 mins.
Trailhead: Painted Rock
Fee: $2/vehicle
Attractions: petroglyphs

The Painted Rock Petroglyph Site is located about 17 miles west and 11.5 miles north of Gila (hee-luh) Bend, Arizona. The site, which is managed by the BLM, has many hundreds of petroglyphs that have been attributed to the Western Archaic Style, 7500 B.C. to about A.D. 1, and the Gila Style of the Hohokam people, 300 BC to AD 1450. To better accommodate visitors the site also includes a large shaded ramada picnic area, vaulted toilets and a campground.

Barrier Free Nature Trail

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Round Trip Distance: 1.8 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 1498 - 1506 feet
Cellphone: 3-5 bars
Time: 1 hrs.
Trailhead: North Tatum Blvd.
Fee: none
Attractions: Paved interpretive trail

The Barrier Free Nature trail is a wheelchair accessible interpretive trail located in the Reach 11 Recreation Area in Phoenix, Arizona. Bordering the north side of the Central Arizona Project Canal the 1,500 acre Reach 11 Recreation Area has 18 miles of multiple use trails that bisect its nearly 7 mile long and half mile wide expanse.

Parowan Gap Petroglyphs

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Round Trip Distance: 0.4 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5525 - 5540 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 45 mins.
Trailhead: Parowan Gap
Fee: none
Attractions: Petroglyphs

The Parowan Gap Petroglyphs are located about 9 miles west of Parowan, Utah and about 20 miles north of Cedar City. The site has a spectacular array of rock art etched onto numerous boulders and cliff faces on both sides of the gap from one end to the other. Due to its significance as an archeological resource the site was placed on the National Resister of Historic Places in 1969.