Between 600-1300 AD, Puebloan Native Americans inhabited this land and made dwellings here. What is interesting is that instead of being on a flat plateau on the top of the land, the dwellings are carved into the shear cliffs of the mountains. There are about 600 cliff dwellings in the area. The full reason for why they built into the cliffs is unknown, but they left spectacular sights for us to wander across. It is amazing to think of the inhabitants waking up and stepping onto a cliff. On some of the sights, you can actually see the marking from when they scaled down the cliffs to the different levels. It’s thought that environmental and social instability forced the Native American’s away, leaving this area to be undisturbed until the 1770s when discovered again by missionaries.