   Lying low on Camelback Mountain, in its northwest corner, is this giant cavern-like opening, or grotto. This place was a ceremonial site, or sacred site, for the ancient people who once lived in the Valley of the Sun.
   Rocks here ( / Camel's Head Formation, but some of the underlying (~1.7 billion year old) appears to be visible also.
   Once within it, the ceiling hovers 40 or 50 feet (12m - 15m) over your head, and the view to the north includes other peaks of the , as well as some nearby weirdly-shaped rocks.

   You can read more about this place in my FREE, short GeoStory™, called "Landmark".

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   There are 7 views in this sequence -- this is scene #4.

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Camelback Grotto is an ancient Hohokam sacred site, on Camelback Mountain, in Phoenix, Arizona.