Una Vida & Petroglyphs (1 mile roundtrip, allow 45 minutes)
Una Vida is a Chacoan “great house,” a large pre-planned multi-storied public building with distinctive masonry, formal earthen architecture, and a great kiva. Una Vida exists today in a near-natural state of preservation, free from major vandalism, and with only minor excavations and preservation repairs. A one-mile roundtrip (including petroglyphs) trail begins at the NE corner of the Visitor Center parking lot. Portions are rocky, steep, and slippery when wet. Take water and travel in small groups to lessen our impacts to this fragile site.
Russ Bodnar
Una Vida with Fajada Butte in distance
Russ Bodnar
Petroglyphs on Una Vida trail.
Did You Know?
The Hopi place name for Chaco Canyon is Yupkoyvi, "the place beyond the horizon." Ten clans of the Hopi
consider Chaco Canyon part of their ancestral homeland
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