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Cliff Dwellers Lodge Airport (AZ03) is a small private-use airstrip in the high desert of northern Arizona, tucked beneath the Vermilion Cliffs near Marble Canyon. Owned by the Bureau of Land Management and associated with the nearby Cliff Dwellers Lodge, it offers a single dirt runway with no instrument approach, radio service or lighting, making it very much a fair-weather, daylight VFR destination for light single-engine aircraft.
Cliff Dwellers Lodge Airport is a private-use, non-towered airstrip owned by the Bureau of Land Management, serving the Marble Canyon area of Coconino County, Arizona. It takes its name from the adjacent Cliff Dwellers Lodge, and its remote, unlit dirt runway and complete lack of navigational aids make it a field of interest chiefly to sim pilots wanting an authentic backcountry Arizona strip rather than a conventional cross-country destination.
The airfield lies in Coconino County, Arizona, about 8 miles (7.0 nmi; 13 km) southwest of Marble Canyon Airport and the town of Marble Canyon. It sits at coordinates 36.7344, -111.753 at an elevation of 4,216 ft. The nearest airport with airline service, Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, is some 195 miles (169 nmi; 314 km) to the west. No control tower or air traffic control service is associated with the field.
The airfield has a single physical runway, 04/22, 3,839 ft long with a dirt surface. There is no lighting and no instrument landing system.
No communications frequencies are published for this airport, and it has no assigned radio callsign. There is no instrument approach procedure and no ILS; the field is uncontrolled with no air-ground or ATC service.
No published circuit or joining procedures exist for this field. As a non-towered, private-use airstrip with no radio frequency on record, pilots operating here would need to rely on see-and-avoid practices and standard uncontrolled-field etiquette.
The airfield can be located roughly 8 miles southwest of the town of Marble Canyon and the separate Marble Canyon Airport, in the dramatic terrain beneath the Vermilion Cliffs of northern Arizona.
The airstrip is owned by the Bureau of Land Management and takes its name from the nearby Cliff Dwellers Lodge, which it serves. For the 12-month period ending April 23, 2015, the airport had three aircraft based there, all single-engine types, reflecting its role as a small, lightly used general aviation facility rather than a commercial airport.
Cliff Dwellers Lodge Airport remains a private-use airfield, and as such prior permission is required before any visit. It covers an area of 68 acres and continues to support a small number of based single-engine aircraft, with its single dirt runway and lack of lighting or navigational aids keeping operations limited to daytime visual flying.
