Mesa Verde National Park
Some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan sites in the United States, protected in a park in southwestern Colorado that is the state's only World Heritage Site. Its stone villages include dwellings built into alcoves under the overhanging cliffs, lived in by Pueblo peoples centuries ago.
- Where
- Cortez, Colorado, United States
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 37.2604, -108.4944
Get the Mesa Verde National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Mesa Verde National Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Colorado volume with your photos and a note.
Near Mesa Verde National Park
Monument Valley 146 km
A valley on the Colorado Plateau along the Arizona and Utah line, where sandstone buttes rise as much as 300 metres above the desert floor. It lies within the Navajo Nation, which holds it sacred, and its silhouettes are familiar from decades of Western films.
Canyonlands National Park 150 km
A maze of canyons, mesas and buttes carved by the Colorado and Green rivers and their tributaries in southeastern Utah. The park was created in 1964, and its overlooks look down on layer after layer of coloured rock worn away by the two rivers.
Arches National Park 187 km
More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches stand in this park just north of Moab, the densest collection of them anywhere on Earth. The best known is Delicate Arch, and the fins, spires and balanced rocks around it owe their shapes to a buried bed of salt shifting beneath the desert.
Antelope Canyon 259 km
A slot canyon on Navajo land near Page, its narrow passages carved by water through sandstone that glows orange and purple when sunlight slants in. It has several sections, chiefly the Upper and Lower canyons, and is visited with Navajo guides.
Petrified Forest National Park 269 km
A national park in northeastern Arizona named for its large deposits of petrified wood, ancient logs turned to stone in shades of red, yellow and purple. It also takes in colourful eroded badlands of the Painted Desert, and old Route 66 crosses it.
Horseshoe Bend 271 km
A horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River near Page, where the river loops right around a tall sandstone outcrop. From the overlook on the rim it is a sheer drop of about 300 metres to the green water.
Taos Pueblo 278 km
An ancient pueblo of the Tiwa-speaking Taos people at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, lived in for around a thousand years. Its multi-storey adobe houses are still home to families, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Bryce Canyon National Park 327 km
Not a canyon at all but a row of huge natural amphitheatres cut into the edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. They are crowded with hoodoos, thin spires of red, orange and white rock shaped by frost and water, seen from a rim between about 2,400 and 2,700 metres up.
Questions
Where is Mesa Verde National Park?
Mesa Verde National Park is in Cortez, Colorado, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Monument Valley (146 km), Canyonlands National Park (150 km), Arches National Park (187 km).
How do I get the Mesa Verde National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Mesa Verde National Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Colorado volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Mesa Verde National Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Colorado volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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