The Aquaduct trail network in Mancos, CO isn’t very big but it’s a fun and nontechnical ride that you can do in under two hours, or double up for a longer ride. This is a new network as of 2023, built on BLM land with lots of sage, juniper, and pinyon pine. It’s very convenient …
Month: May 2025
Our friends Melanie and Lawrence came through the area and met up with us for this hike to Petroglyph Point in Mesa Verde National Park. The loop is somewhere around 2.7 miles and follows a foot-worn trail of the Ancestral Pueblo people into the forested Spruce Canyon landscape and along a sometimes steep, rocky path. …
Some friends from when we lived in Bend came through the area and one of the days we booked a cliff dwelling tour in Mesa Verde National Park. Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America with 150 rooms and 23 kivas. The structures were built by the Ancestral Puebloans. Tree ring data indicates the construction took …
Phil’s World is a magnificent trail network in Cortez, Colorado! We have ridden here quite a few times and it’s always fun. I like that there are different trailheads to start from and this time we started from Cash Canyon TH which is further into the network. Most of the trails out here are one …