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Friday, September 2, 2011

Day 9

We arrived at Mesa Verde National Park Tuesday and checked out the campgrounds.  Horrible! So we went to plan B and stayed at Mesa Verde RV Resort just 1/2 mile from the entrance to the park.  A very nice and clean park with pool and hot tub, and big sites.

Returned to the National Park on Wednesday and again on Thursday to tour the cliff dwellings - the reason the park exists.  There are hundreds of sites here in the park, but only about a dozen are accessible and the three best can only be seen up close on ranger guided tours (only $3.00 per person per tour).  It takes an hour to reach each area from the park entrance so it took us two days to see the best two.  Below are pictures of each.

But first our girl in one of her favorite spots


The series of pictures below are from Wednesday when we visited "Lodge House"

It was storming when we left the rv but we went anyway not planning on any tours.
But so few people were present we were able to buy a ticket for the next tour.
Turned out to be really nice as we were the only two on the tour so we had the ranger all to ourselves.

















Next day was sunny and we went back in to tour the "Cliff Palace"
Has about 30 people on this tour so not quite as nice (crying babies and all)











views from the mesa top to the valley below





Ok!  We're off to Dead Horse Point State Park outside of Moab, UT next




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2 comments:

  1. Silver SlipperSeptember 2, 2011 at 12:35 PM

    All and all looks like you had a good time. On to your next adventure. Love it! xo

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 9:10 AM

    Just catching up on some of your blogs... Who lived in the cliff dwellings and when? Love, Allison Rae

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