From Great Basin it was time to head on to Arizona to spend
a couple weeks in the high country before heading down to the valley. We spent
six nights at the Kaibab Paiute RV park that is right next to
Pipe Spring National Monument. Why stay in the remote Arizona Strip so long? Because we
can and it is a wonderful area with a very nice RV park.
We had a short, maybe a quarter mile, walk from the RV
park to the monument visitor center. This is a wonderful place to visit that can
take several hours to see everything. The Monument was created, and is operated, as a cooperative effort of the Kaibab Band of the Paiute Indians and the
National Park Service. It tells the story around a natural spring - the proverbial
oasis in the high desert. Ancestral Puebloan peoples followed by Paiute Indians
have lived there for centuries and then Mormans came along and made claims in
the mid-1800's. What happened next is the typical conflict and ruining of the land sending the Paiutes to the edge of survival.
There is a great film and tours of the historic fort that tell the
story-history very well. The beautiful surroundings at the base of the
Vermilion Cliffs help make this an enjoyable place to visit.
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| Pipe Spring National Monument |
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Pipe Spring National Monument -
The Fort - Winsor Castle |
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| Cowboy building on Ridge Trail |
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| View of the compound from Ridge Trail |
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