Mesa Verde Tours
Mesa Verde Tours is your Southwestern tour specialist. With a wide array of interactive and educational tours for every family and every budget, Mesa Verde Tours can help you make the most of your trip to the Four-Corners region of the U.S. Also create a personalized vacation experience with a variety of unique and learning based package journeys.
Ruin Tours
Mesa Verde National Park
Starting with the earliest of evidence of human habitation
at Mesa Verde National Park, continuing through the
amazing cliff dwellings the Ancestral Puebloan built
within the Four Corners region. This tour offering will
provide the guest an understanding of the pre-cliff dwelling
development of this ancient civilization and as well as gain insight to the stunningly beautiful cliff dwellings of the park.
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Chaco Canyon National Historic Park
This amazing Northern New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan
community will intrigue the guest with the immense
architectural and technological achievements this ancient
civilization realized. From the Great Houses to the
Great Kiva this tour provides the guest an opportune time to
venture through the dwellings, discussing the complexity
of this ancient civilization. This site, being one of the most
studied sites of the Southwest, continues today to expose
new discoveries that brings better understanding yet further
quandaries as to the greatness of the Chacoan people.
Unique package tours:
Mesa Verde Tours also provides some incredible and unique tours to provide your family with an authentic western experience.
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Cultural World Heritage Package:
This 4 night, 3 day vacation package will give you a unique and in-depth understanding of the distinctive cultural heritage of the SW 4-Corners Region. You will visit 2 of only 20 World Heritage sites in all of the U.S. and learn about some of the most rich and fascinating cultural history in the world. Investigate the ancestral Puebloan people (formerly known as the Anasazi) with an archaeological investigation at Crow Canyon (seasonal - Wed. and Thurs. only), then visit Mesa Verde Natl. Park, home of the largest cliff dwellings in North America and finally, visit Chaco Canyon, a major center of Puebloan culture between AD 850 and 1250.
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Aztec Salmon Ruins
These ruin sites, both Chacoan Outliers, will provide the
guest an unparalleled glimpse of daily Chacoan/Puebloan
life. The Great Kiva at Aztec, which has been reconstructed,
will amaze the guest as to the complexity of its design. The
Salmon Ruins will grant insight to daily life of the Puebloan,
this site which underwent a significant fire, was abandoned
shortly after the episode.
Hovenweep National Monument
This picturesque settlement of the Ancestral Puebloan
found on the Colorado / Utah border, will astound the
guest with what are called the Towers of Hovenweep.
The settlement, of the later stages of Puebloan occupation
of the Four Corners, provides a remarkable glimpse into
a community settlement outside of the major populous.
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Scenic Driving Tours
San Juan Scenic Skyway Tour
Departing the Durango area and climbing into
the high country of the San Juan Mountains, this
tour brings the absolutely best Colorado has to offer.
The vistas offer ample opportunity for photography of
the rugged mountain ranges, as the towns along the way,
a glimpse into our Victorian past. Tour itinerary provides
limited time within Silverton, Ouray and Telluride.
Four Corners-Monument Valley
First, a visit to America's iconic Four Corners Monument,
a place that allows the guest a once in a lifetime experience
as well as bringing them closer to Navajo artisans. Then,
across the Navajo homeland to visit another iconic place,
Monument Valley. The sandstone formations have served as
a backdrop to the Navajo belief system but also countless
western movies and artistic renditions.
Million Dollar Highway
The historic nature of this road system alongside the rustic
beauty of the San Juan High Country makes for a delightful
outing. This offering brings the guest through the Silverton
district and continues on to Ouray for an extended rest.
Designed to allow time, to visit the Ouray Hot Springs, shop
or just simply relax and enjoy what has been termed "The
Swiss Alps" of the America's.
Trail of the Ancients
The canyons of the Four Corners offer beauty, intrigue and
history found nowhere else within the Southwest of America.
The guest takes a scenic drive into the southeastern portions
of Utah, exploring habitation sites of pre-historic times, finding
themselves upon one of the most celebrated prehistoric trade
routes utilized to bring necessities into the region.
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Historical Geology Tours
Silverton
Experience the breathtaking geology of the North Animas
Valley, climbing it's way into the San Juan Mountains. With
an elevation of 9,318 ft., Silverton, with all it's Victorian
charm, provides the perfect backdrop to the hard rock
mining strikes of Howardsville, Eureka and Gladstone.
The tour also includes a descent into the Old Hundred Mine.
Telluride
Following the Dolores River Basin into the San Juan
Mountains, the transition from high desert into high
altitude tundra offers for a full day of wonder. Finding the
way into such historical mining districts as Rico, Ophir,
Pandora and Telluride. The rugged backdrop of the
high peaks of the San Juan's provides for amazing
views making it one of the most photographed
areas of Colorado.
Creede-Lake City
Entering into the San Juan Mountains from the Southeast,
following the Rio Grande River Basin to it's headwater's
area, the scenery is amazing. The historical mining areas of
Creede, are the most prosperous of all the Colorado gold
mining regions. Wide open wilderness areas, home to
numerous wildlife recovery programs, and spectacular
vistas make this a Colorado excursion one remembers.
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