We travelled across the USA on a tour organised by Great Rail Journeys of York between the 7th and 27th October 2009. Great Rails provided a tour starting at the 600ft (183m) deep Walnut Canyon. Many of the dwellings were built around a U-shaped meander in Walnut Canyon, where the creek circles around 3 sides of a high rocky plateau,... more

If you are interested in the why and how of indian cluff dwellings, this is an excellent opportunity to get a personal "feel" for the life and times. Quite a few steps to climb but excellent/safe trail, hand rails and rest stops. more

i enjoyed this; everything is outdoors so go when weather is good else you will be disappointed; there is side trail which is handicapped acessible but does not go to the cliffside dwellings; you can step into some of the actual cliffside dwellings but it takes 185 steps but i did not find it difficult; young kids and older folks... more

We really enjoyed the Island trail at Walnut Canyon. There are quite a few steps but lots of places to stop and read the informative signs along the way. The trail both overlooks the ancient pueblo ruins and runs right past so that you can go inside them. This would have been a very beautiful place to live once. more

Loved Walnut Canyon! It's a beautiful, historic site that can be experienced for $10 per car load. Hiking trails of various lengths for the experienced and inexperienced (we being inexperienced with two daughters, ages 6 and 9). If you can, take the 200+ stairs down into the canyon to get an up close look at old cliff dwellings - it's... more

We hiked this the day after seeing the grand canyon. I liked this much better. Maybe because it was so much less commercial and less crowded. Our girls ages 10 and 12 liked it as well. It is very interactive. The hike up is hard but there are lots of places to rest along the way. If you are in... more

I enjoyed the spectacular canyon/ravine more than the ruins but we all loved it. The hike on the well constructed steps might be difficult in rain or snow. more

We spent a couple of hours here and it was nice. We went down into the canyon and saw the riuns. It was pretty cool that you could go in a couple of them. There was only two downsides. One, there had been a rockslide so half of the loop was closed. The other is the walk back out. Jeez.... more

This was a fascinating national monument to see because there were so many ruins in one place to see. We hiked the island trail, which is very well named because you go down (about 200 or so stairs) to an island (although it's not really surrounded by a lot of water) that's full of native American dwellings. And the island... more