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Anasazi Heritage Center Review
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Anasazi Heritage Center
- Address: 27501 Rte. 184, 3 mi west of Dolores, Dolores, CO | Map It
- Phone: 970/882-4811
- www.co.blm.gov/ahc
- Category: Museums/Galleries
- Location: Dolores
Fodor's Review:
The Anasazi Heritage Center houses the finest artifacts culled from more than 1,500 excavations in the region. A full-scale replica of an Ancestral Puebloan pit-house dwelling illustrates how the people lived around AD 850. The first explorers to stumble upon Ancestral Puebloan ruins were the Spanish friars Dominguez and Escalante, who set out in 1776 from Santa Fe to find a safe route west to Monterey. The two major ruins at the Anasazi Heritage Center are named for the pair. The Dominguez site is the less impressive of the two, although it's of great archaeological interest because here scientists uncovered extremely rare evidence of a "high-status burial." The Escalante site is a 20-room masonry pueblo standing guard over the McPhee Reservoir.
- Cost: $3
- Open: Mar.-Oct., daily 9-5; Nov.-Feb., daily 0-4
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