This is where you can find websites, helpful phone numbers, friends groups and cooperating associations, and, sometimes, books related to the park.
Mesa Verde National Park: nps.gov/meve
Visitor Information:
Headquarters - 970-529-4465
Visitor Information - 970-529-4465
For information about bringing your pet, click here.
Fees
Standard Park Pass:
- Seven-day vehicle access (May 1 – October 22): $30
- Seven-day vehicle access (October 23 – April 30): $20
- Seven-day motorcycle access (May 1 – October 22): $25
- Seven-day motorcycle access (October 23 – April 30): $15
- Seven-day per person access (May 1 – December 31): $15
Mesa Verde National Park Annual Pass: $55
American the Beautiful Annual Pass (including Senior Passes): FREE - $80
To view the park map, visit this page.
Friends Organizations and Cooperating Associations
Mesa Verde Association supports the interpretive, educational, and research activities of Mesa Verde National Park. Books, maps, videos, park guides, trail guides, and other materials can be found here.
Mesa Verde Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Mesa Verde National Park. The web site contains information on the Foundation, the Mesa Verde Visitor Information Center project, and events the Foundation sponsors.
Helpful Books
Stars Above, Earth Below, A Guide To Astronomy In the National Parks
Add Stars Above, Earth Below, a Guide to Astronomy in the National Parks to your library and you'll not only gain a better appreciation of the dark skies over national parks, but you'll also be better informed on the stars twinkling at you.
First Impressions: A Reader’s Journey To The Iconic Places Of The American Southwest
This is not a book for light reading. It is, though, one that takes a historical approach to examining the hallmarks of the Southwestern landscape. Canyon de Chelly, El Morro, Rainbow Bridge, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, and the Grand Canyon are among the destinations to which we are reintroduced through the writings of the first non-natives who were encountered.
Aztec, Salmon, And The Puebloan Heartland
This collection of essays by 11 experts on the “Heartland of the Middle San Juan,” most of whom are archaeologists, greatly advances interest and understanding of this relatively less-known Ancestral Puebloan region.
