Last updated: November 17, 2025
Remarkable Rocks and Ancient Cliff Dwellings
Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have lived and traveled throughout Walnut Canyon’s dynamic landscape. Vibrant communities built their homes in the cliffs and farmed along the canyon’s rim. Today the park preserves this landscape, and the ancestral homes in and around the canyon.
View Cliff Dwellings on the Island Trail
The one mile round-trip Island Trail provides access to 25 cliff dwellings.