2018 Grand Canyon National Park — 5/24 Mary Colter's Desert view watchtower

這看似古老遺跡的碉堡，其實是在1932年建造的，Visitor Center就是在這個tower（瞭望碉堡）裡！

The four-story structure, completed in 1932, was designed by American architect Mary Colter, an employee of the Fred Harvey Company who also created and designed many other buildings in the Grand Canyon vicinity including Hermit's Rest and the Lookout Studio. The interior contains murals by Fred Kabotie.

裡面到處都可看到印地安的圖騰，當然這些圖騰不是古蹟，但還是不失其趣味！

圖案的色彩鮮豔

有些則是雕刻在牆上

我相信這些圖騰都應該是參考大西部印地安人的一些遺跡而畫出的。

有狩獵的、畜牧的、農耕的生活圖騰在其中。

這些原始又有趣的圖騰真的深得我心，花了我不少時間慢慢欣賞！

這個watchtower有4層，樓梯非常窄，只能容許一個人走。

Mary Colter spent six months researching archeological prototypes and construction techniques before building a model of the site, studying the design of the tower using clay. Before the final design was completed Colter had a 70-foot (21m) platform built to assess the views from the proposed site.Engineering was provided by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Colter was responsible for selecting Kabotie and Geary to decorate the interior. Geary's rock art paintings are copies of now-destroyed petroglyphs at Abo, New Mexico, and may be their only surviving representation.

還好遊客並沒有太多，雙向讓一下還不算太擁擠。

我和女兒都喜歡畫畫，對這種圖騰真的很有興趣，真想一個個全照下來！

真的很喜歡美國國家公園內的建築物和設施，他們通常都是由重視環保或是大自然景觀的建築師設計的。盡量運用在地的建材，配合地形地物設計，使得建築物和周邊的環境完全融合在一起，一點也沒有突兀的感覺。