The Blaine County Journal News-Opinion - We've Got The County Covered

Nancy Fox, a Hi-Line Traveler from Glasgow, Montana, works her way down the "ancient staircase" with other visitors at the Acoma Pueblo. The staircase was shewn from rock sometime around 1200 A.D. on the side of the 370 foot mesa that protrudes up from the desert floor. The isolated nature of the steep sides of the mesa helped provide security for the people who lived atop the mesa. When the natural cisterns on top dried, women would use the staircase to haul water from sources on the desert floor. Farmers would use the staircase to carry farm produce and livestock from the fields below to the pueblo atop the mesa.