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False Kiva
January 2009
False Kiva is a wonderful location in Utah’s Canyonlands. It consists of a stone circle which once would have been used as a temporary shelter by ancestral Puebloan people. The National Park Service estimates it was constructed around 1200 and only occupied for a short time, probably on a temporary rather than permanent basis.
The term false kiva derives, I think, from some early observer’s mistaken guess that this was in fact a true kiva (as it is round), which it is not.
The location is spectacular – tucked into a natural alcove in a secluded canyon wall with wonderful views to the south over the Green River and White Rim trail.