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Trail of the Ancients- Colorado
As one of the more culturally significant routes in Colorado, this trail has many prehistoric sites from Navajo, Utes, and Puebloan communities.
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Trail of the Ancients- Colorado Details
As one of the more culturally significant routes in Colorado, this trail has many prehistoric sites from Navajo, Utes, and Puebloan communities. Although 114 miles of the road travels through Colorado, a large portion also extends into Utah and through Navajo Nation. One of the most popular attractions is the Four Corners Monument, the only place in the country that is shared by four separate states (Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico). The region is also teeming with numerous museums, heritage centers, and archeological sites. Cultural highlights along the way include Ute Mountain Indian Reservation, the Yucca House National Monument, and the prehistoric Pueblo cliff dwellings in the Mesa Verde National Park.
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Nearby Points of Interest Around Trail of the Ancients- Colorado
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16.2 mi away
Hovenweep National Monument
Imagine tall buildings rising from the Colorado Plateau up to four stories high: it's not a scene from the 21st century, but one from more than 800 years earlier.
20.8 mi away
Yucca House National Monument
The U.S. National Park Service protects Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) ruins all over the Southwest; Yucca House National Monument is unusual in that it has never been excavated.
20.9 mi away
Yucca House National Monument
Explore an unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan site with a two hour ranger-guided tour.
23.3 mi away
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
Created in 2000, the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is especially notable for the large quantity of cultural and historical ruins and artifacts found there.
28.2 mi away
Wetherill Mesa
A quiet and remote section of the park, with the only self-guided cliff dwelling, Step House, and the ranger-guided Long House.
