Mesa Verde National Park Full Day Tour

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Cliff Palace - Mesa Verde's Largest Site — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

Mesa Verde National Park Full Day Tour, photo 2 — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

About this activity

Your professional guide will customize the trip to your group offering choices from the park's ranger-guided tours (Seasonally available 2nd week of May thru 3rd week of October) 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.

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At a glance

Duration: 9 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Up to 18 people
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: English
Operated by: Mountain Waters Rafting & Adventure Company LLC

Ages: Children (4–11 years) · Adults (12–99 years)

What is included

Included

Included: Professional guide
Included: National Park fees
Included: Tour escort/host
Included: Driver/guide
Included: Lunch
Included: Transport by private vehicle

Not included

Not included: Gratuities

Itinerary

Mountain Waters Rafting & Adventure Company

30 min

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

7 hours Admission included

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
Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center

30 min Admission included

Explore the Visitor and Research Center with your guide
Cliff Palace

one hour Admission included

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