We stayed at the Mesa Verde RV Park, October 29 to 30, in a beautiful pull-thru site, while visiting Mesa Verde National Park, just across the road. Mesa Verde National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, established by Congress and President Roosevelt in 1906. Mesa Verde (Spanish for “green table”), with more than 5,000…
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Anasazi Heritage Center and Mesa Verde National Park
Today we drove to Cortez, and then north to the Anasazi Heritage Center, located in Dolores, which is a museum of the Ancestral Pueblo culture and other Native cultures in the Four Corners region. The Heritage Center, in operation since 1988, is a fabulous museum of millions of artifacts and displays showing the life of…
Mesa Verde, Colorado
Today we drove to Mesa Verde National Park, created in 1906 to preserve the archeological heritage of the American Pueblo people. The Park includes over 4,500 archeological sites; only 600 are cliff dwellings and we took a tour through one of them, Balcony House. This is one of the best preserved sites in the Park….