Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is a national monument protecting an archaeologically significant landscape located in the southwestern region of the U.S. state of Colorado. The monument's 1
My Public Lands Roadtrip Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado
Painted Hand Pueblo, Great Pueblo period: AD 1100 to 1300
Entrance sign for the monument, with a rock formation
The Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum
Hovenweep National Monument
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Hovenweep National Monument is located on land in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, between Cortez, Colorado and Blanding, Utah on the Cajon Mesa of the Great Sage Plain. Shallow tributarie
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
…their outstanding cultural, ecological, and scientific values. Canyons of the Ancients encompasses and surrounds three of the four separate sections of Hovenweep National Monument, which is administered by the National Park Service. The monument was proclaimed in order to preserve the largest concentration of archaeological sites…
Horseshoe Tower in the snow
Hovenweep House
Hovenweep Castle
Square Tower