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Mesa Verde National Park
Park that protects dwellings built under canyon overhangs by the ancestral Pueblo peoples, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Entrance fee applies.
Colorado · the United States
Cortez
In the destination Mesa Verde and Durango.
In the photo: Municipal building in Cortez
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The city
What to expect from Cortez.
Town in the far southwest of Colorado, about 15 km from the Mesa Verde Park entrance, in the Montezuma Valley. It is the base for the ancestral Pueblo dwellings in Mesa Verde, Hovenweep National Monument and Canyons of the Ancients, and for the Four Corners monument where four states meet.
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The local experience
What to see in Cortez
Archaeological site
Cliff Palace
The largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde, with about 150 rooms and 23 kivas, visited only with a park ranger.
Archaeological site
Hovenweep National Monument
Six villages of the ancestral Pueblo peoples with stone towers on canyon rims, on the Colorado–Utah border, about 70 km from Cortez.
Monument
Four Corners Monument
The only point in the United States where four states meet: Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, on Navajo Nation land.
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Archaeological site
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
A national monument with thousands of ancestral Pueblo sites, with a museum in Dolores and ruins such as Lowry Pueblo and Escalante Pueblo.