You're good bro. I grew up in the desert southwest and am a professional geologist - walked around a lot out there. What I can tell you is 1) your google earth skills (yes there is skill to it) are next level 2) you are very good at seeing it in the field as well. Good job man. I'm jealous as I sit at my computer and you're out in the field.

I love your videos. As a disabled person, you make it possible for me to visit and see things I physically could not manage. Your videos make my day. Heartfelt thanks to you.

My wife and I have been hired in the past to do plant surveys along planned power line routes. Others were hired to search for and map archeological sites. Sometimes what we found would cause the planned route to be changed. That could have been the case here. Did you look down the power line in both directions to see a curve or bend around the ruins? It could be more obvious on google earth. Sometimes “salvage” archaeology can take place: a hurried supervised dig by pros to determine the extent and importance of the site and also to remove artifacts. Hundreds of sites like this are known but not publicly marked to discourage pot hunters.

I believe what you're doing is very important to North American history. I wish we had the resources to better catalog and restore some of these places lost to time.

I've done some archaeological work in the area and I was very impressed by your knowledge and your respect and caution at the site

Five stars! Seriously, I'm so grateful to you for treating these places with respect and not take anything away, like so many would. There might be local Native American people who could tell you about the history of the place. If not, there might be archeologists in the region who know (or could tell by the potsherds). I would love to know the history of it! Thank you for sharing this adventure! I'm too old to adventure now, but at least I can watch others explore!

Those H structure power lines are known as transmission lines. I helped build some down in the White Sands area of New Mexico back in 2008. We had to have a cultural anthropologist survey before we dug at many of the locations.

Thank you for being so respectful of the places you visit. And thank you for taking us along on these explorations -- I love it!

Hopefully you reported this site to a local Archeologists. So much of North Americas history has been reburied, or just destroyed. A single pot shard will be enough to tell them if what you found is important. I love how respectful you are to the locations you visit.

Awesome find! My 2 year old was even saying, "whoa!" and "wow!" We love going along on your adventures! We'd be curious about what types of things you take along with you on your hot, dry desert adventures!

That site actually is quite exiting. The pottery certainly means native settlement and those walls are clearly man made. Maybe it would be interesting to map it and try find the wider picture of why this would be here. It looked a bit greener, so I expect maybe a water source? I would think archaeologist from the nearest university might be interested as well. This place has a story to tell.

You are aware, I’m sure, the amount of destruction done by pot hunters. It was considered to be “fair game” to locals before laws were passed to protect antiquities. Laws can only do so much. There needs to be a change of mind set as well, where it’s no longer”cool” to take things from public land. Your channel is helping set an example of how to respectfully explore these places. Thank you!

This is a awesome explore dude, ancient history all over the place. So cool

Just a thought, in the forested New England area there are "pits" that are actually cellar holes for homes. Of course, those homes and any occupants are long gone, but the miles of rock walls and evidence of their habitation remain.

"One rock is a rock. Two rocks is a coincidence. Three rocks is a wall". - Mick Aston, Time Team.

Fun!...like always. Keep it up and I'll be there.

I really enjoy these! I grew up in CO and my school's made the ancestral pueblo history an important part of our curriculum. As a kid running around it always tickled my imagination knowing that people thousands of years ago were running around on the same earth as I was. Your videos really bring back that sensation. Thank you for respecting their homes.

I wish we cared more about our ancient sites in North America. It is so nice to see this.

It's wonderful how detailed you are in documenting these sites and i love how you leave behind the artifacts ❤

The four corners area used to get alot of rain back then. Estimated to have close to 4 million people at one time in the Golden Circle. I loved to explore these back when I was younger :)

Keep on keeping on, the quick flower views are always nice! as well.

This was super cool to see. Thanks for sharing your explorations.

83K subscribers! You're going to hit 100 before too long. Thanks for sharing another cool adventure.

Love what you're doing! Thanks for taking us with you

Jeff, thanks once more for taking us along on this Trek. You raise an interesting question about the energy company lines that cross this land, whether their people were aware of the ruins' presence. I rather doubt they were. Remember, you have a trained eye to spot these things. Very few other people do. Likely, they took their meal breaks among the mounds, kiva pits, scattered postsherds and trenches and paid no attention and took no notice. I agree this find is worth further study and investigation. There is much here to discover.

Great work and thanks for sharing. Shared to Facebook. Chris

Love to see your videos of ancient sites!! Keep up the great work

Jeff you are quite the sleuth on google earth! Great find! What other people would see as just a rocky area you bring into focus what was ancestral homes that the world has forgotten. Thanks for your sleuthing, so interesting!

What a cool find! I'm really enjoying living vicariously through your explorations. I used to do the same Google Earth and hike adventures back before I had kids, and your work really takes me back to those freewheeling days.

Great video man! I love that you’re adding in what the pottery could of looked like fully intact. I’d love if you did the same with the building sites! Can’t wait for the next one

Take note of the site bushes. Thorny, shrub like plants with green leaves. They're called Wolf Berries...or Goji Berries. They're typically found in ruins or can be used as an indicator of a possible habitation site. They're edible berries with a slightly sweet to tomato like flavor. 99% of the time you could say with absolute certainty....you find or see the plants....you're in a ruin or near one.

great utube i really appreciate. your investigating and sharing

Thank you for sharing. Keep up the good work!

Wow! Another great find. Thanks Trek Planner. 😊

outstanding hike and discovery, it's amazing how many folks lived in these areas and we never knew..thanks for sharing..

So amazing... I love your appreciation for the ancestors and you will be blessed. Please be safe some may be sacred grounds forgotten many lifetimes ago. 😁👍

You find the coolest places. Thanks for taking us along.

Thanks for another great (virtual) exploration, and as expressed by other's, your respect for the sites u visit, is appreciated and a fine example 👍👍

This is good stuff! Love the wildflowers and rocks.

Another great find on this one. THANK YOU for leaving the pottery!

You have a very good eye, I really hope you do find some people to help you explain what you have found and if it is a new find. I would love to see some follow up video's on that. And also, WELL DONE, for your deep respect of the people and in leaving the site the way you found it, and maintaining the stratigraphy.

This was a great one! The size and scope is amazing!!

Love it! Makes me want to explore too!

Wow. This place is so big, wonder what it looked like in its peak. Thank you for taking us on this journey ❤❤❤❤

your reverence for the land and the pottery pieces is very impressive, new subscriber. the drone shows room structures and alignments we would miss on the ground, like the lines at Nazca. thanks for sharing this experience.

PLEASE READ. 🙏 😀😁🙂 Thank you TrekPlanner for exploring these long forgotten ruins. Please excuse the lenghty reply, i'm a huge fan of yours and it is worth the read for those that see this... Most of these like the one you just rediscovered where multi story cities and suburbs that housed what I estimate as a vast civilization would have been at a minimum 7 million people in 1530's based on written accounts from Spanish Explorers and Spanish Conquistador's as well as the Church that arrived later after the Spanish Conquistador's finished there dirty work. 🙃😏 I can sight some good reads that are of historical significance that are very eye opening and push the ruins that you are finding to the 1530's at thier height until they where abandoned to hide in the canyons from The Spanish Conquistador's genocide of the inhabitants. This was to make way for settlement ordered by the spanish crown in secret. This was due to the Spanish Conquistador's and the Spanish Church's prior experience with the Aztecs and the Incas. Once in what is now modern-day Mexico the Spanish discovered rumors of another third massive and advanced civilization that was in trade with the then occupied Aztecs that spanned the four corners region, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and it's borders spanned right up to what is now modern day Texas. Fearing the unpopulararity of meeting another "heathen" (Their words not mine) Non-Christian civilization that would be known to the rest of the old world as inhabited lands, the decision was to send Conquistador's on Horseback into that area and wipe out all traces of them to make it "uninhabited". Due to the inhabitants militaristically peaceful, defensive and not offensive cultural nature of their civilization most of the people as per their customs when faced and encountered with another native american invading force (according to witten accounts from the Spanish) the civilization's inhabitants would kneel in the center of the room with thier heads down and would allow the other native american tribe invaders to take corn, pottery, jewelry, clothes, and various goods without a fight under the long held mutal cultural understanding that they would not be hurt if the invaders would ONLY take what they needed to survive and leave. This was thier way of survival and passive non aggression that allowed thier civilization to grow to such a massive size which the Spanish Conquistador's used to their advantage. Unfortunately this belief structure killed ALOT of people that lived there because they where not there for their goods but their extermination due to being Non-Christians. This quickly caused a culture shift of making defensive structures and towers to spot large Spanish Armies approaching on horseback with big clouds of dust in the distance. According to the Spanish written testimony the civilization had to abandon their cities and ran to hide in the Canyons and would not come out. You can't move massive armies on horseback up dangerous cliffs and move effectively through canyons and steep valleys. 😅 But in 1536 they got their final military campaign break and encountered The Lost Spanish Conquistador that had made his way from the Coast of Texas (after being shipwrecked, beaten, tortured, slaved, escaped from his captors and gained local notoriety) on foot into that region which understood the peoples customs and traditions that the local inhabitants trusted. According to the Spanish on this encounter with The Lost Conquistador that Coincidentally survived in his later travels on foot on his way to the pacific ocean by posing as a God 😂 with a large following of native American people around 20,000 (also on foot all the way from Texas) 😅. The Spanish Armies where at a stalemate with the inhabitants and the people at that point, where very distrustful and skittish of the Spanish Conquistador's. Upon talks and negotiations with The Lost Conquistador, The Commanding Spanish Leadership was able to bring him back into the fold of the already ongoing Spanish Military Campaign since he had gone "native". By restoring his position, military title and promising him to return him to Spain by horse then ship from now modern-day Mexico out of Spanish occupied Aztec land (which he later did). On hearing this The Lost Conquistador was brought back into the fold and "re-christianized and de-heathenized" with the promise that his followers were to become Christians. With his notoriety and "Shaman Status" and arguably his own army that could oppose the Spanish Army (His 20,000 followers from Texas) in a tipping point, convinced the remaining hidding native american inhabitants from the region that you discover on your treks to come out of hiding from the canyons to meet with the Spanish Conquistador's to be exterminated in secret by order of the Spanish Church and Spanish Crown. According to the testimony from 1536 the people that lived there where deemed "Unconvertible to Christianity" and promptly wiped out to make room for Spanish colonization. Their unfortunate reasoning was that these planned "Virgin, Untouched, Fertile and Eden like lands" where owed to them as their promised lands as Christians, as dictated to them by the Bible, which they needed to have the inhuman and no better than animals "heathens" wipped out first to maintain their future illusion. Which after as the testimony goes, when The Lost Conquistador was on his way back to Spain the Spanish Armies not only killed his 20,000 "Christian" followers that convinced the inhabitants to come out of hiding to be secretly killed but also as many and any inhabitants of the civilization they could find afterwards. After a "successful" campaign of God's work and Christianity they too returned by horseback to now modern-day mexico in Aztec lands and to Spain by ship. Later, when Christian missionaries arrived in these "Newly Discovered" lands almost one hundred years later, the few surviving native people's dependents were forced to tear down, bury underground, destroy, take apart brick by brick any and all traces of there old civilization to include any structures, pyramids, cities and places of worship. This was achieved by forcing these inhabitants until death by torture, exaustion, dehydration and starvation to destroy these structures and build Christian Churches on top of the largest sites. You just so happened to find one that was only partially buried and not built upon with a church on top of it or removed brick by brick then built upon. Sadly killing 7 million people takes alot of time. 😐 By the time maps where drawn of the area in the 1600's it was "only ever" Spanish Missionaries that where named in the area with no history of the names of old original places like in what the Spanish had drawn on their maps for Aztec and Incan lands. Effectively history was rewritten until now.. Some secrets are hard to keep secret forever and eventually the scrutiny of history comes through in the end.. So as you explore and discover these wonderful remnants of The American Southwest's history before American Setters got there, please remember the offical story of 800-1000 years is not the truth, and the truth no matter how inconvenient and unpopular to Christianity and The Church is that this was only 500 years ago to 400 years ago when they finally had died off and it was a genocide committed in the name Christianity, the Bible and The Church, that dwarfs the Jewish Holocaust. If this doesn't sit well with modern-day please remember these are the same people that made The Spanish Inquisition a thing to their own people and no one ever expects The Spanish Inquisition.. Peace out, with lots of admiration in your pursuit of the painful truth, mic drop. 🎤 🙃😁😎💚💚💚💚

I look at the individual shards like you picked up with the lines on it and think, a human hand decorated that a 1,000 or so years ago and am struck as much by that as the larger ruins themselves.

These treks fire the imagination. Thank you for sharing. Great video

Another good video. The drone footage really helps put things in perspective.

Really cool find!! Thanks!

I really appreciate you taking us along on these treks. Like I said, back when I was in college in the late 1970s, I drove to visit many of the better known ruins. Occasionally I would happen on a side ruin that would have pottery sherds scattered around it. I always wondered why there was just one sherd and not a lot of the same sherds from the same pot. I imagined trying to reassemble a complete pot but there never seemed to be enough similar sherds. The road from the east towards Hovenweep had a farm field next to it and I could see several raised mounds the farmer had gone around. I stopped the car and went to investigate. Sure enough, I found piles of rocks that once were walls and pot sherds everywhere. I'm glad the farmer didn't just plow everything under but I suspected the sites had been disturbed quite a bit. These ruins you are finding with Google Earth have interesting stories to tell too. If only they could talk!

Great Content ❤, From the drone views it appears that sections of this site have been previously excavated. I wonder if that occurred while the power lines were installed? Maybe the power company would have some documentation regarding this area.✌️👍

Fascinating!!! TY for sharing!!! God Bless!!!

I just started watching your videos today, I love them. Something I used to do when I was young. Go hike alone in the mountains behind my car moms house. I’ve seen old burial grounds. I paid my respects & never went back. I’m knew it was old as a cradleboard was hanging on a tree, that’s how Apaches used to bury their babies. Thanks for sharing your adventures & respecting the sites.

I am impressed with your videos and in awe of your eye for finding these things! Also, 👍Seattle hat!

I love to stop & appreciate the wildflowers too. Thankyou for pausing.

6:40 Too funny - I thought I was the only one who talks to myself and gave the all right answers 🤪. Fun addition to your well done videos📽 - Good work on your Dude ✅- Keep them comin...

I find it fascinating that you’re able to find these places. As someone who has an archaeology buff your finding a location like this is helping to record our past. A site like this should be protected.

You'te doing a great job, kid. Keep on searching. Next Winter, you might consider expanding your search to Southern Arizona. The Hohokam built towns, settlements, canals, you name it. The signs are there, if you search in the right places. In any event, keep on making these videos. You sure as hell caught my interest!

Amazing, you’ve got a great eye to spot these on Google Earth and also on the floor…

These things are more common than people realize. Glad your doing this.

Awesome, thanks for the tour 😎🤩

Thanks. I love watching what you find. 😊

Outstanding job. You got my subscription on this one.

Wow, good stuff!! ❤

New Sub and Southern Oregon Historian. I have only seen a couple of your videos, I really enjoy your Commentary.

Nice find!👍

You never cease to find amazing ancient adventure🎉

amazing nice work...

Like what you do mate, watching from North East England.

Hi, thank you for the adventure and grtting to see the remnants of amazing structures of the past. Did you by chance see possible past or present water source(s) nearby? Thank you for sharing your trek!

Man I love your videos, your personality comes across strongly. Keep this up I get a lot of joy from your explorations.

Some years ago I volunteered at an archaeological dig in western Colorado. The site was a greathouse belonging to the same cultural tradition as Chaco Canyon. In the 1950s, the landowners had spent their Sunday afternoons bulldozing the spot, looking for saleable artifacts. This looks like it could have suffered a similar fate… maybe?

Nice work 👌 thank you for sharing 👍

Amazing!! Thank You so VERY much!!

Thanks for a great video

Stunning! Awesome find. There is an Archeological group in the UK that tackles investigating ruins. Would be amazing to have an American version.

Great content !

That was amazing. Thank you.

Always enjoy your "treks". Really love the 4 corners area.

With thanks for your adventuring and sharing.

Looks like an ancient settlement , to me !!! Another good job and video !!! 👌✔️

Wow that's exciting!

Wow man when you point it out i see it so easily. Thats pattern recognization off the charts!

Keep this up. It really blows my mind. It's kind of like Chaco Canyon. It looks like it was built on flagstone. Really cool.

Gorgeousness! Gratitude brother! What a find!

Great Video! SUBSCRIBED!

Thank you for taking us along with you! I grew up in Utah and we spent most of our time in the south central part hunting arrowheads for vacations. My dad was a rockhound and became a silversmith so he could make jewelry from what he found. It was a good and interesting life. Miss those good times with family and friends camping out in the desert and looking up at the stars. We only had one incident with one of my brothers waking up with a scorpion in his sleeping bag. Good times!

I love seeing your discoveries!!

Mahalo for taking me along. Aloha

Have you managed to speak to anyone about it yet? A site of that scale really should be reported and at least registered as an historic monument. Some of the “mounds” remind me of burial mounds at Bronze Age sites around the world.

Very good adventure!

I get a kick out of your sense of humor. I'm so glad you share your interests with us. This place must have been so amazing at one time along with the interesting and artistic people who lived here. I do wonder why that spot for the electric lines.

Very cool! 👍😁👍

Cool, fun, thanks!

Great video production. I grew up in Grand Junction but live in Australia now. Crazy how green it is this spring.

It would have been really neat to have seen this around the year 1300, it would have been abandoned but still standing. The only reason the cliff dwellings are still around is because of the cliff coverings. This area took a lot of weather abuse.

Thank you for sharing you're awesome discoveries!!! some of us can't get out like we used to!. never forget people!!! this land is your land! this land is my land!!

this is _so_ amazing!

You do good work!