The tour reaches Cliff Palace by a stone stairway and then four 10-feet ladders. You have to be able to climb both up and down ladders and not be too afraid of heights. An upper ledge at the ruins contains the remnants of 14 storage rooms. Here you can see a good example of a dry wall, where rocks were carefully stacked without mortar. Today the ruins show sections of wall and mortar, T-shaped doorways, and in places you can see original timber beams.
Few places have their original plaster covering and wall decorations.
What we see today is bare walls. Wall paintings and designs were commonly used. This smaller ruin of 35 to 40 rooms overlooks Soda Canyon. Here you get to climb and scramble as you explore. Each was distinctive.