IMPORTANT note to self!
11/4/2018
I was going to call this, I can see for miles and miles, because when we entered the park the views were spectacular. However the deeper into the park we got the more my stomach started growling.
Before we left home we discussed making sandwiches to take with us. Other topics and problems came up and the sandwiches were forgotten that is until we were well inside the park and my stomach started to grumble. It’s just a good thing we had plenty of snack bars that we always carried, in the jeep, backpacks.
Obviously the important note to self is to do more than think about taking food with us.
Mesa Verda Park is massive I don’t know how big it is but its well over 20 miles from the entrance to the end of the road, that’s not counting all the side loops. We spent most of the day just driving and looking from the lookouts. Also one of the long roads was closed for the season, had it been open we would not had time to drive and stop at all the overlooks.
We plan to go back and do a few actual hikes. Most are less than 2 miles long but at 7500 feet even short walks have you breathing hard, so a moderate to strenuous hike will probably be most taxing. They must be and kinda dangerous to because you need to resister at the trail head for the hikes.
One of the things I was really looking forward to has been discontinued for the season, that’s guided hikes down to the ruins. They have those trails closed for the season.
Yes, it was getting dark again by the time we got home.
This is just a small sampling, see all the pictures and videos at RMTravels.smugmug.com in the album Mesa Verde.
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Hey Guys
I loved Mesa Verde.Great scenery & good hike areas and deep chasms/gorges were fantastic to view. I recall we took some loop of a few miles. A fond memory. When we were there, five years ago, a guy was missing. He’d never got back on a tour bus the week before. No sign of him anywhere; no clothes found, no trace. A park ranger said usually something is found. Nothing. It’s fascinating Indians lived in those rocks! A must see for anyone in that area.
Doug
It’s an interesting place and big. 45 minutes to an hour to get to the end, and that’s without stopping.
What I find interesting is the amount of work it took to haul all those rocks along the narrow trails to build there. WHY? When you look out over some of the valleys surely farming would be easier in the valleys than in the narrow gorges or on top of the rocky Mesa’s.
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