Wupatki National Monument is about 35 miles northeast of Flagstaff. You drop down out of the 7000+ level a bit into another high plain. You are still over 5000 feet. This is a pueblo built over 900 years ago. You could see in the distance the Painted Desert. The distinction we are learning is that there were pit houses, built on level ground and dug down a few feet, cliff dwellings where the rock formation formed the roof protection and the floor of the dwellings either one or multi-story places and the pueblos are built on top of a mesa or hill and rise up using the rocks as the backs of the structure but rising above the top. This one is a pueblo. It also had a specific built ball court about 100 years down the hill with walls that enclosed the court. They are not sure how the game was played but it clearly was important. Not information on who held the naming rights to the stadium:)
Path to the ball court