Una Vida & Petroglyphs
Una Vida from trail. Russ Bodnar Una Vida & Petroglyphs 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. You can download a pdf file of the Una Vida Trail guide here. (To get the Free Adobe Reader, which is required to read this pdf file, click here.) Click here to see a wayside exhibit of Una Vida. 
Una Vida with Fajada Butte in distance
Russ Bodnar
Petroglyphs on Una Vida trail.
Russ Bodnar
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Did You Know?
Beginning in 1937 the CCC funded an experimental Mobil Unit to work on ruins stabilization. The crew was mostly Navajo and even had one female member. They passed their knowledge to future generations, and many members of the preservation crew today are related to the original team. More...