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.
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.
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.
The Bluff Great House is an archaeological site in Bluff, Utah. It was an Ancestral Puebloan great house much like the ones found at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico.
Navajo National Monument protects three hidden Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings. It’s located in northern Arizona within Navajo Nation and there’s no fee to visit.
Desert View Drive is a 25 mile scenic route at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It runs along the Grand Canyon from the Grand Canyon Visitor Center to Desert View Point.
Anasazi State Park Museum is a museum and Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site. It’s located in Boulder, Utah, along Scenic Byway 12.
Natural Bridges National Monument, located in southeast Utah, was the state’s very first national monument. It was established in 1908 by Theodore Roosevelt.