You say Windsor, I say Winsor.

KW, get up and get ready to leave.  Where to tour guide?  We are off to visit Winsor Castle.  Wait a minute tour guide, isn't that in England?  No KW, that's Windsor Castle.  Please don't confuse me tour guide.  You said Windsor Castle.  No I said Winsor Castle.  OK, your giving me a headache.  Let  me finish dressing so I can see this castle.







The Pipe Spring ranch was home to ancestral Puebloans and Kaibab Paiute Indians for at least 1,000 years.  In the 1870's Mormon pioneers built a fort over the main spring and established a cattle ranching operation.

















Our tour guide Ben is a Paiute Indian


Inside the Castle or Fort.  Almost everything is original to the 1870's






This is made out of pine. But if you look close, it is painted to look like Curly Maple.




This was made in 1870.  I don't think Cracker Barrel was around then.


Putting the pieces together


Voila', we finished in record time.


Nestled below the spectacular Vermillion Cliffs above the vast plain north of the Colorado River's Grand Canyon.  Pipe Spring was a thriving Mormon-owned ranch, farm and dairy operation by the 1870's.   Winsor Castle is part of the (Mormon) expansion southward to the Colorado River, one of a string of five forts.  Anson Perry Winsor was appointed the first ranch manager.  The enclosed two-building, two story sandstone dwelling built for him, his wife, Emmeline, and their family quickly came to be called "Winsor Castle".  The reference is, of course, to the much grander Windsor Castle, one of the homes of the royal family in England.

Winsor Castle Arizona


Windsor Castle England


Work is never done when Glamping.




What it would have looked like back in the day.


Vermillion Cliffs


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