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Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Una Vida & Petroglyphs
Distant photo of Una Vida
Russ Bodnar
Una Vida from trail.

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. 

 
Photo of Una Vida with Fajada Butte in distance
Russ Bodnar
Una Vida with Fajada Butte in distance
 
Photo of petroglyphs above Una Vida
Russ Bodnar
Petroglyphs on Una Vida trail.
Photo of Hopi Dancers at Pueblo Bonito  

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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Last Updated: August 14, 2006 at 14:23 EST