Daytrips for your family to enjoy in Mesa Verde Country®
The landscape of Mesa Verde Country®, rolling sage plains, towering mountains and spectacular mesas, has nurtured people for thousands of years. To explore Mesa Verde Country® is to travel back through time.
One spectacular site after another will fascinate you. Whether located on wide open plains or perched high in cliff faces, each site will intrigue you and you will feel a human connection. As you wander these same paths, travel through these same forests, and wonder at these same endless skies, Mesa Verde Country® will reward you with adventure at every turn.
Follow these links to some of the most popular day trips in Mesa Verde Country®.
Mesa Verde National Park
Ute Mountain Tribal Park
Upper Dolores Valley, Town of Rico & The Meadows
Trail of the Ancients
The only national scenic byway dedicated solely to archaeology. But, get out of your car to truly enjoy it.
The ranger guided Balcony House tour is a popular attraction on the Mesa Verde National Park Daytrip
Hovenweep National Monument
Remote and starkly beautiful, known for its unique towers guarding precious springs
Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores Overlook & Lowry Pueblo
"Must see" hands-on museum. Lowry Pueblo contains an excellent example of a Great Kiva
McPhee Lake
Canyons of the Ancients
The sites scattered across this Monument provides an irreplaceable link to our past and hold a spiritual value for Native Americans.