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Mesa Verde National Park Invites Public Comment On The Mesa Top Loop Roads

The National Park Service, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, is considering a project that would rehabilitate Mesa Top Loop, Cliff Palace Loop, and Sun Temple Loop roads, improve physical accessibility at adjacent overlooks, improve sidewalks and parking areas, replace the current Visitor and Research Center intersection, and possibly widen the two-way sections of Mesa Top Loop and Sun Temple Loop roads to accommodate a bike lane.

Finland Agrees To Return Remains, Some Items Taken From Mesa Verde In 19th Century

You could say that Gustaf Nordenskiöld was one of the first grave robbers in the United States' Southwest. Back in 1891 he returned to Europe with hundreds of items, including human remains, from the lands that became Mesa Verde National Park. Now some of them are heading back to Mesa Verde.

The Shutdown Is Over, But Not All National Parks Are Ready For Visitors

Shifting gears in national park operations after the lengthy partial government shutdown is not quickly done, and so not all parks are fully ready for visitors to return. At Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, several rockfalls are complicating that park's reopening, which isn't scheduled until February 4.

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