Kinishba Ruins

Four miles west of the fort stand the stone rooms of Kinishba, a Puebloan town of the 1200s and 1300s whose builders were ancestors of today's Hopi and Zuni. Hundreds of people lived here in masonry blocks around open plazas, farming the same bottomlands the Apache would later work. Archaeologist Byron Cummings dug and partly rebuilt it in the 1930s. The White Mountain Apache hold the site now, one more layer of a valley that has been home to many peoples in turn.

What the plaque says

Has been designated a National Historic Landmark This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America 1964.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Apache Historic Park — 4.2 mi
  The Army fort that became a boarding school — and came back to the Apache
• Salt River Canyon — 26 mi
  US-60's switchback plunge into the gorge that divides two Apache nations

More markers nearby

• First Commanding Officer's Quarters — 4.0 mi
• Theodore Roosevelt School — 4.2 mi
• White Mountain Apache War Memorial — 5.3 mi
• Becker Butte Lookout — 23 mi