Tusayan Ruins and Museum

The Tusayan Ruins and Museum, located along the Grand Canyon South Rim’s Desert View Drive, offers a window into the lives of the Hopi tribe and the Ancestral Puebloan people who lived in the area 800 years ago. Inside the museum, visitors can explore artfully displayed exhibits featuring pottery, arrowheads, and household artifacts. Notable among these are the 2,000–4,000-year-old split-twig figurines, shaped like deer or bighorn sheep, some with intricate horns or antlers. The site is part of a scenic drive that includes Desert View, where the Colorado River and Escalante Butte are visible, and Moran Point, which showcases a layer of red shale in the canyon walls.