We headed south out of Moab early in the morning. We took old highway 666 east toward Colorado to get to Mesa Verde National Park. Highway 666 is renamed to Rte 491 (I believe) due to the negative associations people have with the 666 designation. Right or wrong, this highway had a very high fatality rate as well.
Mesa Verde is a huge park. The entrance road is probably 30 or 40 miles to the visitor center along a very windy cliff-hugging road. It is well worth the ride. However, due to the length of our drive to get to the park, is was lunch time when we arrived.
Due to the limited time we had there, you have choices to make - you can't see all the cliff houses in a single afternoon. The choice is often made for you as some houses are more popular than others and the tours fill up. Also, in some, you have to be able to fit through a small tunnel - probably 36 inches square and about 4 feet long. I can assure you, I saw some people there that could not have gotten naked and greased up and fit through that tunnel. There are places where you need to climb log ladders - probably 10 feet at a time - to exit the ruins. I did not want to follow these same people up these ladders and fortunately did not have to.
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