Destinations · Colorado
Mesa Verde National Park
CO · 37.2500, -108.4600
From Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, Byway's registries place 1 scenic byway, 1 national park, 2 public land units and 9 campgrounds within 30 miles.
Understand
The name of the park is Spanish for "green table", referring to the vegetation found at the tops of the plateaus in this area; while members of a Spanish expedition were the first Europeans to visit the area, they never got close enough to see the ruins. Instead, the first known "rediscoverers" of the ruins were members of the Ute tribe, who wintered in the area (but not in the ruins themselves as they believed them to be sacred) in the late 1870s.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- San Juan Skyway · 6 mi · national
National parks
- Mesa Verde National Park · inside
Public land
Campgrounds
- Morefield Campground · 4 mi
- Target Tree Campground · 16 mi
- McPhee Campground · 18 mi
- House Creek Campground · 19 mi
- Transfer Campground · 20 mi
- Jersey Jim Lookout · 23 mi
- Kroeger Campground · 23 mi
- Snowslide Campground · 23 mi
Named places
- Battleship Rock · 2 mi
- Chapin Mesa · 2 mi
- Navajo Hill · 2 mi
- Park Point · 2 mi
- Moccasin Mesa · 2 mi
- Megalithic House · 2 mi
- Pipe Shrine House · 3 mi
- Far View House · 3 mi
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