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Please note the Full Day Mesa Verde National Park Tour will not be available until July 1st due to road closures. Consider a Half Day Mesa Verde instead!
Your professional guide will customize the trip to your group offering choices from the park’s ranger-guided tours as well as adding historical, cultural and archaeological insights on interpretive hikes and walking tours. Park entrance fees, ranger-guided tour tickets and a deli-style lunch are included.
Discover Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978 and considered the largest archaeological preserve and first cultural National Park in the country. Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years. Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archaeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.
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Duration: 9 hours
Starts: Durango, United States
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> Full-day Tours
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Please note the Full Day Mesa Verde National Park Tour will not be available until July 1st due to road closures. Consider a Half Day Mesa Verde instead!
Your professional guide will customize the trip to your group offering choices from the park’s ranger-guided tours as well as adding historical, cultural and archaeological insights on interpretive hikes and walking tours. Park entrance fees, ranger-guided tour tickets and a deli-style lunch are included.
Discover Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978 and considered the largest archaeological preserve and first cultural National Park in the country. Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years. Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archaeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.
Stop At: Mountain Waters Rafting & Adventure Company, 303 W College Dr, Durango, CO 81301-5911
Park for free, check-in, get ready, head off to Mesa Verde National Park for the day
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: 81330, Mesa Verde National Park, CO 81330
Spend the day touring cliff dwellings and archaeological sites
Duration: 7 hours
Stop At: Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center, 35853 Road H.5, Mesa Verde National Park, CO 81328-9325
Explore the Visitor and Research Center with your guide
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, CO
When available, the park has limited the seasonal schedule and the capacity of the ranger guided tour into the Cliff Palace Ruin.
Duration: 1 hour
