A remote Canyons of the Ancients site is known for a tower complex and the painted handprint that gave the place its modern name. Access uses primitive roads and trails, so the parking-area pin is intentionally used instead of routing directly onto the archaeological structure.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/colorado/canyons-of-the-ancients