Mesa Verde National Park Travel Blogs

If you guys love nature, national parks and photographic excursions thats the 4 staates you can visit in a 3 week trip. Recomended Parks: Garden of the Gods, Colorado springs; Great Sand Dunes NP, Southern CO; Mesa Verde NP, Southern CO; Monument Valley, UT; Arches NP + Canyonlands NP, UT, Rocky Mountain NP, Northern CO

1500 miles in 5 days around 4 Corners

World Heritage Site:  Mesa Verde!  This morning we left Durango and travelled less than an hour to Mesa Verde.  We all decided to skip Choco for now. Although it is also a World Heritage site, it’s very difficult to get to and would require backtracking over the Rockies again, goin…

Got to visit the amazing cliff dwellings today.  Since we got there so early, we were able to get tickets to 2 of the sites: Balcony House and the Cliff Palace, both of which are ranger-led tours.  Descriptions from the NPS site follow.  Balcony House: Adventurous Cliff Dwelling Tour…

DAY 21Mesa Verde, Colorado - 78 with thunderstorms and rainToday was one of the high lights of the trip for me. My sister and I went on a guided tour of the largest cliff dwelling in the park, known as Cliff Palace which has 150 rooms and was constructed by the Anasazi type of Native American in o…

Ok, we had seen great landscapes, impressive valleys and fantastic rock formation. Now it was time for a little "culture" trip. Our next destination was Mesa Verde NP. This park is best known for its fascinating Indian cliff dwellings.When we arrived there we learned that a large wildfire had occur…

In this two days we left Moab and made the way down to Cortez. On our way we visited Silverton, a nice little old style (wild west and victorian) village in the San Juan Mountains. The next day we went forward to the Mesa Verde National Park to visit the famous Cliff Dwellings. Unfortunately, …

A road trip throughout the Southwestern United States, visiting national parks and monuments.

Saw loads of burnt out forests - fantastic views of canyons and saw all the cliff dwellings. The ranger wo took us was also somewhat the philopsher. Huge ladders in an out - not for those scared of heights. Drove to Moab on the way saw a pretty Walmart all in the style of the local buildings.

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We went to the famous, Mesa Verde, and explored the ancient Indian ruins. We only planned on staying a few hours, but when we saw the map and how many things there were to see, we just had to stay overnight.   We started our visit by going to the campground to look around and set up camp. I…

Friday, June 13, 2008   Today we went on a hike to an ancient pueblo village!  Indians lived there and I got to pretend to grind the corn with a rock.  Also, I got to climb down a ladder to the kiva underground.  It was cool down there.   We also went to a museum and le…

Martina and I kidknapped Irmgart's garden gnome, Karl, and road-tripped from Portland to Sky City, New Mexico. Started out on I-84 toward Idaho. Camped in Burley - Paul (sounds like a bad dragqueen name). Drove through Utah to camp in Moab. Visited Arches National Park, and Mesa Verde before pulling in to Sky City Casino Hotel. Visited the Pueblos, Sandia Peak, Santa Fe via the Turqouise Trail. Then back toward home via Flagstaff, Las Vegas, Death Valley, the San Joaquin, & the Siskiyous.

Went cross country with my Dad ("WaltJake") last summer, but we ran out of time and didn't get to go everywhere we wanted to. This is a rough draft of where we want to go next time! If anybody knows of anything interesting to see near our travel path, please let me know!

Probably the best preserved Native American ruins in the U.S. Be sure to visit between May and September to avoid missing out on seasonal openings.