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Dec 26, 2016Explorer
Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. Out in the middle of nowhere, and a terrible road to reach it.
But arrive and you are camping in one of the least-visited, most interesting places in the National Park Service system, and a Unesco World Heritage site. Campsites are next to abandoned ruins of the Ancestral Puebloan culture that thrived here around 800 to 1200 A.D. and then vanished.
But arrive and you are camping in one of the least-visited, most interesting places in the National Park Service system, and a Unesco World Heritage site. Campsites are next to abandoned ruins of the Ancestral Puebloan culture that thrived here around 800 to 1200 A.D. and then vanished.
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