Canyon de Chelly: Ancient Stories Etched in Stone

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the third page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 PETROGLYPH ROCK A short distance from Newspaper Rock, just a few steps away along the base...

Canyon de Chelly: A Timeless Journey into the Heart of the Navajo Nation

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the second page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 I’m an Arizona native with a background in anthropology, and I’ve always been fascinated...

Canyon de Chelly: Part 2: Chinle Wash to the Junction

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

The high desert of the Colorado plateau is a vast territory, an all but empty landscape edged by sere, weathered mountains. There are few towns, but there are many lonely homesteads, tiny communities of doublewides and ramshackle prefabs, some with a six-sided hogan,...

Canyon de Chelly: The North Rim Drive

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the 4th and final Page of a longer article: Click here to return to Page 1 Most visitors to Canyon de Chelly National Monument focus the bulk of their attention on the South Rim Drive, but in my view, your trip simply won’t be complete if you don’t...

Canyon de Chelly: Overlooking the White House

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is Page 3 of a longer article: Click here to return to Page 1 WHITE HOUSE OVERLOOK UPDATE   UPDATE   SEPTEMBER 2024   UPDATE   UPDATE White House Overlook and Trail to reopen in 2025! After a “temporary closure” that has extended for nearly five...

Canyon de Chelly: The South Rim Drive

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Road Trips, Travel, Tribal Lands

This is Page 2 of a longer article: Click here to return to Page 1 THERE ARE SEVEN OVERLOOKS ON THE SOUTH RIM OF THE CANYON: Indian Route 7 begins at the turnoff from US 190, and serves as the main road in the Navajo town of Chinle. If you follow it headed east, it...

Canyon de Chelly: Part 1: The Rim Drives

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Road Trips, Travel, Tribal Lands

Canyon de Chelly (“D’Shay”) is a geological marvel of the first order, a hidden treasure, tucked away in a remote section of the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona. It’s one of the more striking features of the Colorado Plateau, where sediments from an ancient...

A Serendipitous Sunset at Shiprock

by Richard Quinn | Sep 5, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

What do you call it when you stumble across something wonderful that you didn’t know anything about in advance? Some people say that’s just good old-fashioned luck, while folks that are a bit more full of themselves tend to consider it fate, or destiny....

Antelope Canyon: Conjuring a Beam of Light: Take 2

by Richard Quinn | Jan 30, 2020 | Photography, Travel, Tribal Lands

Until about 30 years ago, nobody outside the small town of Page, Arizona had ever heard of Antelope Canyon. Today, thanks to Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and all the other photo sharing sites out there, every human on the face of the earth has seen photos of the...

Antelope Canyon: Conjuring a Beam of Light

by Richard Quinn | Jun 13, 2015 | Photography, Travel, Tribal Lands

UPDATE: January, 2020:  This post describes what it was like to take a “Photography Tour” of Lower Antelope Canyon back in 2015. Unfortunately, in the years that have passed since then, quite a lot has changed. Today, both Upper and Lower Antelope Canyon...