Butler Wash Beach Ruin

This is an amazing little ruin just a ways up the trail near Butler Wash on Cedar Mesa near Blanding, Utah. This is a smaller ruin just up the trail from Ballroom Cave and Target Ruins.

I visited this ruin on May 2nd, 2009, during a very rainy spring. Indeed while I was in the ruin taking photos a tremendous thunderstorm dumped right outside. That storm proved to me how smart it was to build shelter inside the cave. Toward the back of the cave it was warm without a fire and well-lit.

I'd have to imagine that this ruin was quite the home site for some lucky Ancestral Puebloan family.

For more info on Butler Wash, follow this link:
http://www.cdarc.org/pages/what/exhibits/visit/butler_wash.php

You can view my synth of the Butler Wash Target Ruins here:
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=1b75483f-c22b-42e0-a5c0-a5c5989eb466#