Day 6, On Sunday we drove from Naturita, CO to Blanding, UT.
On the way out of Naturita, we stopped for a photo op at the Uranium Drive-In sign. Back in the 1960's, when the uranium mining was in full swing, the Uranium Drive-In was the center of social activity in Nucla and Naturita. After the mining industry dried up and the drive-in was closed, the sign fell into decay. Recently, the citizens got together and moved the sign to Naturita and restored it:
Lyndi liked the mining mule made from car parts:
We drove southwest through the high desert landscape:
The route to the Hovenweep National Monument is well marked:
After a stop at the Visitor Center we set out on the 2-mile self-guided walking tour around the small canyon that was the home to around 100 to 150 ancestral Puebloan people from about 1200 to 1300 AD. The group were contemporaries of the groups at Mesa Verde. They had an agricultural society and had developed sophisticated masonry skills.
to be continued......