Anasazi Bridge: What's Actually Documented, and Why It's Closed
A federally closed cultural site in the Redwall formation, and an honest look at how thin the verified public record on it really is.
Cultural Resources
Archaeological-Site Protection Throughout Grand Canyon
4,000+ documented sites, the federal laws that guard them, and the dam upstream slowly undoing decades of natural preservation.
Furnace Flats: The Thin Public Record Behind a Real Closure
A federally closed cultural site with almost no public detail beyond the closure order itself, and what a 2007 dig actually documented there.
Hopi Salt Mines: Closed by Federal Order, Explained by the Tribe
Why this site is closed in the tribe’s own public words, not NPS guesswork — cultural significance, a federal closure, nothing invented.
Why Grand Canyon Cultural Closures Give No Details
The federal laws — ARPA, NHPA Section 304, NAGPRA — that make withholding site details legal, not evasive.