Homolovi State Park
— — the place the Hopi remember walking from.
Not only on a wall.
“An Arizona state park along the Little Colorado River, a few miles north of Winslow. Low mesas hold the remains of several ancestral Hopi villages, lived in roughly between 1260 and 1400, then walked away from when the clans continued north to the Hopi mesas where their descendants still live. The Hopi name Homol'ovi means the place of the little hills. Wind moves through the saltbush, freight trains run the BNSF line south of the park, and pothunters once worked these mounds before the state took them in.
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The place, in three passes.
Homolovi State Park sits along the Little Colorado River about three miles north of Winslow, Arizona, at roughly 4,860 feet on the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau. The park protects several large ancestral Hopi pueblos, including Homolovi I and Homolovi II, occupied between about 1260 and 1400. Hopi oral tradition holds these villages as stops on the migration of clans now living on the Hopi mesas a hundred miles to the north. The park covers about 4,500 acres and was established in 1986, originally as Homolovi Ruins State Park.
Homolovi II is the largest of the pueblos, with more than 1,200 rooms arranged around three plazas and three kivas. The masonry uses local sandstone slabs set in mud, and decorated pottery sherds — yellow-ware from the Hopi mesas, polychrome trade pieces — still wash to the surface after rain. The Hopi name is Homol’ovi, glossed as “place of the little hills” for the low mesas the villages were built on. The site was heavily looted before state protection in 1986, which is why visitors are asked to leave every sherd where it lies.
The park is open daily and reached from Exit 257 off Interstate 40, about three miles north on Arizona 87. The visitor centre runs ranger talks and rotating Hopi pottery exhibits, and the Sunset Cemetery and Homolovi II overlook are both short drives from the entrance. A small campground holds 53 sites with hookups. Spring and fall are the quiet seasons; summer afternoons run hot on the open plateau, and winter mornings drop below freezing. The Hopi Cultural Preservation Office co-stewards interpretation with Arizona State Parks.