North of the highway, the Butler Wash Roadside Ruins are visible after an easy, half mile walk along a marked slick rock trail from the trailhead/rest area. The site consists of several structures: houses, granaries and four kivas located under an alcove beneath the canyon rim. The moqui hand and footholds carved by the ancient inhabitants to access the site are still faintly visible in the right light. Actually getting into the alcove requires a bit of scrambling/rock climbing and we strongly advise against it. A bit further up the road from the Roadside Ruins, situated in Butler Wash proper, is Ballroom Cave ruin. This very fragile, unstabilized site is located in a large alcove with three distinct sections. The remains of roomblocks, kivas, waddle and daub remnants, pictographs and petroglyphs can be found here as well as numerous boulder/slab metates and moquis.
