Ute guides take you inside the 'other Mesa Verde'.
By gowestusa Staff
Although Mesa Verde National Park is the best known Anasazi ruin site in the Four Corners region, the Ute Mountain Tribal Park offers a more intimate visitor experience. Tucked fifteen miles south of Cortez, Colorado, adjacent to the National Park, Ute Mountain is a 125,000 acre park which follows the Mancos River.
Mesa Verde is actually the name of the high plateau that can be seen for miles in Southwest Colorado. Dozens of canyons feed...[continued]
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An impressive complex overlooking the Verde Valley
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Visitors standing at the crest of Tuzigoot National Monument understand why the Sinagua chose this spot to build a pueblo over a thousand years ago. Splendidly situated on a limestone ridge far above the valley below, this 110 room complex was home to several hundred people who survived by dry farming the plain.
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