I had hiked the Boynton Canyon Trail back in November but this time decided to take an unmarked trail to see prehistoric cliff dwellings. This is a beautiful canyon with towering red buttes and crimson cliff walls, also a lush forest. "It begins relatively unimaginative but progressively crescendos from low growing manzanitas and scrub brush into a lovely hike through thick forests of ponderosa pine and scrub oak, alongside a shaded wash of worn red rock boulders."
Boynton Canyon is full of cliff dwellings built between A.D. 1125 and 1300 by the Verde Hohokam (aka Southern Sinagua). http://ruinsseldomseen.com/Boynton_Cyn.html
Prehistoric Indians made this area of Sedona home thousands of years ago. In fact there are still ancient Indian Ruins and burial sites hidden within the astounding beauty of this box canyon. Boynton Canyon is still sacred to the Yavapai Native Americans who consider Boynton as their place of origin. http://www.dreamsedona.com/boynton-canyon-hiking-trail.html
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