The Four Corners Monument is a monument marking the point where the borders of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet. It’s the only place in the United States where four states meet at one point. Navajo Nation maintains the monument as a tourist attraction.
Spruce Tree House is an Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwelling at UNESCO World Heritage listed Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
Balcony House is an Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwelling at the UNESCO World Heritage listed Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
Cliff Palace is a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s located along the Cliff Palace Loop Road which can be found at the end of Mesa Top Ruins Road.
Mesa Top Loop is a road at the end of Mesa Top Ruins Road at the UNESCO World Heritage listed Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. The loop road runs for six miles and is open 8am to sunset. It contains 12 easily-accessible sites including ruins and overlooks.
The Far View sites were a community of farming villages at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Many visitors to the park overlook Far View in favor of the more popular cliff dwellings, but it’s well worth taking the time to see all of the structures there.
Mesa Top Ruins Road is the main road through Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It runs for about 21 miles from the visitor center to Chapin Mesa.
Mesa Verde National Park is dedicated to the protection of over 5,000 Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, in southwest Colorado. The area was inhabited for over 700 years from 600 to 1300. The park was established in 1906 and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument consists of over 176,000 acres of federal land protecting nearly 6,400 archaeological sites in southwest Colorado. The monument, which was created on June 9, 2000, has the highest archaeological density of any region in the United States and encompasses a few sections of Hovenweep National Monument.
Hovenweep National Monument, located in southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, protects six different groups of Ancestral Puebloan villages populated between 1200 and 1300. Over 2,500 people lived in the villages.