Natural Bridges National Monument Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national monument in San Juan County, Utah, United States
About Natural Bridges National Monument
Repeatedly occupied and abandoned during prehistoric times, the area was first used during the Archaic period, from 7000 BC to AD 500. Only the rock art and stone tools left by hunter-gatherer groups reveal that humans lived here then. Around AD 700, ancestors of modern Puebloan people moved onto the mesa tops to dry farm and later left as the natural environment changed. Around AD 1100, new migrants from across the San Juan River moved into small, single-family houses near the deepest, best-watered soils throughout this area. In the 1200s, farmers from Mesa Verde migrated here, but by the 1300s the ancestral Puebloans migrated south. Navajos and Paiutes lived in the area during later times, and Navajo oral tradition holds that their ancestors lived among the early Puebloans. In 1883, pros
Top Attractions in Natural Bridges National Monument
Explore the best things to see and do in Natural Bridges National Monument:
- ★Horsecollar Ruin
- ★Kachina Bridge
- ★Owachomo Bridge
- ★Sipapu Bridge
Where to Stay in Natural Bridges National Monument
- 🏨Natural Bridges Campground
Natural Bridges National Monument Travel Guide Sections
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