When you come to this area we suggest you start your sight seeing by visiting the Anasazi Heritage Center where you can get a lot of information on places to visit in the area. Of course we made the Heritage Center our last stop. Our first stop was the Colorado Visitors Center in Cortez. We did get a lot of information there and the staff were very helpful.
Our first site was Hovenweep National Monument. There is a nice trail on the slick rock to several structures. Not the same as Mesa Verde but similar in some respects. After talking to the staff the first thing we do at most visitors centers is to watch their short movie to get an idea of what we will be seeing along with some history of the area. We took the hike around the canyon but decided not to take the section that dropped down to the canyon floor and back up the other side. That might have been the better thing to do as I was a little on the dehydrated side and it was a long way back. We did have a lot of water but ...
Following are a few pictures and you can see more here.
Our next outing was to go to the Four Corners Monument. We had a nice drive and it was an easy day after our previous day of hiking.
Mesa Verde was our next 2 days. The first day we visited several of the overlooks and the museum. At the visitors center I signed up for the tour of Balcony House for the following day. I don't know that I can add a lot of flowering words so I will leave it up to the reader to follow the link at the beginning. A few pictures with a few more here and here.
Of course we saw the eclipse. We did drive down the highway to get away from the Casino lights.
Since there is a WalMart, Safeway, and City Market in Cortez we went shopping to restock since it had been over a month since really had stores to shop at.
Next stop Chama NM.
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