Canyons of the Ancients

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Canyons of the Ancients covers almost 164,000 acres of high desert in southwest Colorado. This area has the highest density of archaeological sites in the nation, most of them representing the Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture. Visitors will find some intact structures, but most sites appear as rubble mounds to the untrained eye.

Canyons of the Ancients is accessed by maintained gravel county roads, and by the Trail of the Ancients Historic and Scenic Byway which links the Anasazi Heritage Center, Mesa Verde National Park, and Hovenweep National Monument to similar locations in northeast Arizona and southeast Utah.