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Those that have visited megalithic sites in Britain may know that sometimes visiting a lonely, beautiful stone circle in a place like Dartmoor or Cornwall can be a superior experience to visiting heavily touristed and regulated sites like Stonehenge. Certainly, you don't want to miss Stonehenge or Avebury, but even a "number 3" site at a spectacularly photogenic and mysterious location can often be more memorable.
I have found this to be true of American indigenous sites also. In spring of 2016 I visited numerous Ancestral Puebloan sites in northeastern Arizona and northwest New Mexico. I went to nearly all of the Chaco Canyon sites and the outlier sites as well, and continued east and north to Aztec Ruins. The Chaco sites were indeed amazing. However, visiting and exploring less visited sites such as Pueblo Pintado great house (35.976924, -107.673683) or Kin Ya’a (35.676020, -108.113784) can be very rewarding. One of the more ruined sites I visited was also one of the most memorable and spectacular. This was Twin Angels (36.579705, -107.944777). It was quite easy to visit via gas pipeline roads through public land. It's on a rock peninsula high above a large sandy wash. A truly spectacular site.
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