Sandal Trail

An easy one-mile round-trip trail leads to a point overlooking Betatakin Ruin, a multi-level cliff-village that was home to a community of 13th-century Anasazi farmers. Along the route, pygmy forest dominates the high, semi-arid plateaus of the American Southwest as a complex community of plants and animals. Notable features include dwarfed, gnarled pinyon and juniper trees that lean at odd angles, sprout peculiar limb-growths, bear tangles of exposed roots, and appear to crowd each other out.

Arizona · United States