Immersive Mesa Verde National Park Tour with Guide

Your professional guide will customize the trip to your group offering choices from the park's ranger-guided tours as well as adding historical, cultural and archaeological insights on interpretive hikes and walking tours. Park entrance fees, ranger-guided tour tickets and a deli-style lunch are included.

Discover Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978 and considered the largest archaeological preserve and first cultural National Park in the country. Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years. Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archaeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Mountain Waters Rafting & Adventure Company, 303 W College Dr, Durango, CO 81301-5911

Park for free, check-in, get ready, head off to Mesa Verde National Park for the day

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: 81330, Mesa Verde National Park, CO 81330

You will learn and see as much as you can in a single day with a guide passionate about the park and the
culture. This tour has stops at several of the parks archaeological sites, several of the
cliff dwellings, the historic museum, spectacular and a
30 minute ranger guided tour into the crown jewel of the park; Cliff Palace. Cliff Palace is a world-
famous masterpiece of architecture and design and the largest cliff dwelling in the park. Considered
moderately strenuous, this tour will descend uneven stone steps and climb four 10ft ladders, with an
elevation change of 100 feet. Total walking distance is 1/4 mile. Although tickets will be provided
for everyone, not everyone has to go on the tour and this can be decided together with your guide at
the park. Included: Park fees, Cliff Palace
tickets, transportation to and from Durango and within the park, plenty of water and a delicious
sandwich lunch.

Cannot accommodate children under the age of 4 or people will severe mobility issues

Duration: 7 hours

Stop At: Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center, 35853 Road H.5, Mesa Verde National Park, CO 81328-9325

Explore the Visitor and Research Center with your guide

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, CO

When available, the park has limited the seasonal schedule and the capacity of the ranger guided tour into the Cliff Palace Ruin.

Duration: 1 hour



Informacion Adicional
"Not wheelchair accessible"
"Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking"
"Service animals allowed"
"Near public transportation"
"Most travelers can participate"
"This tour/activity will have a maximum of 18 travelers"
"Confirmation will be received at time of booking"



Duration: 9 Hours
Start location: Mountain Waters Rafting, 303 W College Dr, Durango, CO 81301, USA

Cancellations and refunds: For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.

Included

• National Park fees
• Lunch
• Driver/guide
• Professional guide
• Tour escort/host
• Transport by private vehicle
• Entry/Admission - Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center
• Entry/Admission - Mesa Verde National Park
• Entry/Admission - Cliff Palace

Not Included

• Gratuities

Facilities