The River House Ruin is located on the south eastern edge of Bears Ears National Monument, Shash Jaa Unit. River House has multiple rooms that are single and two-stories, a kiva and an assortment of pictographs. Just west of the ruin there are a couple more rooms and granaries as well as a few interesting petroglyphs that include a kokopelli and a bird. The way into River House Ruin follows a portion of the route traveled in 1879 by a group of Mormon pioneers as they began the famed Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition. This same route treks through historic San Juan Hill and the Barton Trading Post.
