With a 45-minute cushion built into our drive to the Phoenix airport, we wanted to visit the two units of Montezuma Castle National Monument. Lace up your sneakers and get ready to walk fast!
You’re on the Santa Fe Trail and you have a choice: one route is shorter, but water is scarce and the road is vulnerable to Indian attack; the other is longer and safer, but you’ve got to get your wagons over some serious mountains. Welcome to the Cimarron and Mountain branches of the Santa Fe Trail.
The Antiquities Act and our national monuments are under attack. Let’s make our voices heard about this threat to public lands.
Sure, I had a to-do list for my time as scholar-in-residence at Grey Towers. But every writer needs a break now and then…