Mesa Verde National Park is truly America's premier archaeological wonder. National Geographic Traveler named Mesa Verde as one of the fifty "must-see" places of a lifetime, and it's easy to see why.
Canyons of the Ancients is a fragile checkerboard of ancient sites scattered across 164,000 acres of high desert in the southwest corner of Colorado. This area was the epicenter of Ancestral Puebloan communities.
Chimney Rock explores the history of the ancestral Puebloan Indians who lived in this area over 1,000 years ago. Visit various site ruins and explore the legends of this astro-archeological site. You can also enjoy full-moon programs, festivals and special events during the season.
The Escalante Ruin was first investigated in 1776 by the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition looking for a northern route from the New Mexico missions to the ones at Monterey, California.
Trail of the Ancients Historic Byway highlights the long and intriguing occupation of the Four Corners region by Native American peoples.
See many items of interest from Delta County's pioneer days, such as housewares, toys, clothing and early farming and ranch utensils.
This 1911 property is an interesting and unusual example of stone construction. An on-site sandstone formation serves as the main cabin's south wall. A small stone guest cabin is located to the east. The cabin is most noted for its secret room behind the hinged bookcase.
All aboard on the Narrow Gauge Railroad to take a trip to the past. Experience the adventure of traveling by a steam-powered, coal-fired locomotive on the same tracks miners and settlers of the Old West took over a century ago.
The Anasazi Heritage Center, a museum devoted to the cultures of the Four Corners region, is your portal to another time explorable in exquisite detail.
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison's unique and spectacular landscape was formed slowly by the action of water and rock scouring down through hard Proterozoic crystalline rock. No other canyon in North America combines the narrow opening, sheer walls and startling depth offered by the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.
This unique, recreated fur trading post offers a vivid glimpse into the feeling and experience of living on the western frontier of 1828.
Remote and starkly beautiful, Hovenweep preserves a brief chapter of Ancestral Puebloan history. Sage covers the plains to hide 20 square miles of farms and fields cultivated by early inhabitants; rubble and rock falls now disguise much of their first homes.
Lowry Pueblo is a part of Canyons of the Ancients National Park and was once home to approximately 100 people.
For an off-the-beaten-track experience, take a tour of the Ute Mountain Tribal Park on the southern border of Mesa Verde with a Native American Ute guide.
Experience what it was like to live in western Colorado in the 1880s to the 1930s. View 500,000 artifacts from the mountain west displayed in store and office displays circa 1880–1930.
Travel back in time, with a visit to Pioneer Town in quaint Cedaredge, Colorado. As you walk along the wooden sidewalks of Pioneer Town's Main Street, you can visit the Coalby General Store, the print shop, the saloon, the States mining museum, the Girling Mercantile, the bank, the marshal's office, the jail house, the Wells Fargo office, and the barber shop which also doubled as a dental office.