Moki steps, sometimes spelled alternately as Moqui steps, are a recurring feature found in areas of the American southwest previously inhabited by the Ancestral Puebloans and other related cultures.
The steps consist of alternating hand and toe holds carved into vertical or near-vertical sandstone surfaces.
They may have allowed relatively quick access to difficult-to-reach areas such as slot canyons, look-out positions, and granaries.
In some cases, Moki steps are thought to have provided access to fertile canyon bottoms from more defensible dwellings on or above surrounding cliffs.
In other cases, recent visitors may have deepened or widened a previously existing set of Moki steps.