There are a number of Great Houses (sometimes called Outliers) associated with the Chacoan world. We had occasion to visit four of them on an all day trip. They are a bit difficult to get to but are incredibly rewarding. We were able to get "up close and personal' with them and they had an overwhelming impact on me. These Great Houses are connected to the Canyon by road which are thirty feet across and tend to run in very straight lines. There is some conjecture (as there are tons of conjectures about the Chacoan world) that these locations might have been staging points for people going into the Canyon. There is great debate as to whether they intimately connected to Chaco or if they were duplicating the Chacoan Great House. regardless of the answer they stand as testimony in their grandeur to the brilliance of their creators.
