Restroom (Comfort Station) – Walnut Canyon National Monument AZ

Description

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees from the Mt. Elden Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp near Flagstaff worked at Walnut Canyon National Monument from 1938 to 1942. 

The CCC built the stone comfort station (restrooms) on a rise above the visitors’ center. It is constructed with local stone with a flat roof in the same Southwest rustic style as the CCC visitors’ center.  The restrooms still function – although a ranger said that after each winter it can need work.  There are modern restrooms in the new visitors’ center. 

Walnut Canyon is an important site of cliff dwellings left by the Sinagua people, who occupied the site c. 1125-1250 C.E.  There are a couple hundred dwelling units tucked into the cliffs on both sides of the canyon, but the focus of the archeological work was along the Island Trail, which the CCC built to provide access to a number of ruins.