Top Reasons to Go

Top Reasons to Go

Ancestral Mansions: Explore Cliff Palace and the Long House, each with more than 100 rooms. They are among the 600 cliff dwellings tucked into Mesa Verde.

Pueblo Places: View kivas, petroglyphs, wall paintings, and more. More than 4,800 archaeological sites and 3 million objects of the Ancestral Puebloans have been unearthed at Mesa Verde.

Geological Goodies: Get low and look close; the desert landscape has a story to tell. Ripple marks suggest the area was once covered with water, turtleback weathering notes the effects of erosion, and flower-pattern solution rills reveal the power of acidic rain on the sandstone's structure.

Bright Nights: Gaze into the sky's starry depths. With no major cities nearby to reflect light at night, the Four Corners area is an ideal place to be an amateur astronomer.