Side Trip to Mesa Verde

We woke up around 5:00 this morning and decided to head out to Mesa Verde, Colorado. It was about 100 miles of open land. We got to see some more of the monuments and drove from the Navajo Nation through the Ute Reservation. Park of the national park was closed due to snow - but we got to see most of the highlights.
Our first stop were the dewllings at Spruce Tree. We really don't get why they call it Spruce Tree - because these dwellings are built into the side of a rock mountain. Never the less - it's beautiful.

This one is called Cliff Palace - there was a sign that said that this particular dwelling held 100 to 200 people.


We got back to Monument Valley pretty close to sunset and decided to wait it out for a pretty view.


The end of another great day.
Tomorrow we're off towards Arches National Park.