Last updated: July 30, 2022
Place
Civilian Conservation Corp Guided Tour Stop 6
NPS
Quick Facts
Amenities
2 listed
Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Scenic View/Photo Spot
Return to the Visitor Center, go out the front door, and follow the sidewalk to your left. Once you leave the sandstone surface of the porch area, the stone sidewalk is CCC work. Go up the stairs or ramp, (which are recent additions) into the patio by the cafe door. Ahead and to your left are the cabins built for the Frijoles Canyon Lodge. This facility replaced the old lodge that Judge Abbott had built near Tyuonyi, the large archeological site up the canyon from here.
Almost straight ahead of you is a round building, known as the “Kiva.” Since the cabins were arranged as if they were pueblo homes around a plaza, this structure was built to resemble the ceremonial chamber often found in pueblo plazas. It contained restrooms and was used for storage of linens and the boiler for this complex.
Each cabin unit has a corner fireplace and was originally furnished completely with CCC hand-made furniture. Most of the furniture is presently in protective storage. The wall material in all the CCC buildings is tuff blocks quarried from the mesa top. The quarry area is now used as the amphitheater in Juniper Campground, where Ranger programs are held on summer evenings. Here in the cabin area is a good place to notice that the walls angle in from bottom to top, which is called “battered.”
Almost straight ahead of you is a round building, known as the “Kiva.” Since the cabins were arranged as if they were pueblo homes around a plaza, this structure was built to resemble the ceremonial chamber often found in pueblo plazas. It contained restrooms and was used for storage of linens and the boiler for this complex.
Each cabin unit has a corner fireplace and was originally furnished completely with CCC hand-made furniture. Most of the furniture is presently in protective storage. The wall material in all the CCC buildings is tuff blocks quarried from the mesa top. The quarry area is now used as the amphitheater in Juniper Campground, where Ranger programs are held on summer evenings. Here in the cabin area is a good place to notice that the walls angle in from bottom to top, which is called “battered.”