Following our visit to Denver, we spent four days touring the southern portion of Colorado, home to Mesa Verde National Park, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and Great Sand Dunes ...

Meanwhile, there is a movement to get National Park status for Great Sand Dunes. Mesa Verde is about 35 miles west of Durango or about 10 miles east of Cortez, which is near the Four Corners area.

F orget the cliched Rocky Mountain gatherings and Mesa Verde mysteries. Colorado has another unique gem waiting to be ...

Check out the 48-hour guides to Colorado’s other national parks here: Rocky Mountain National Park Black Canyon of the Gunnison Mesa Verde Tucked ... otherworldly. Great Sand Dunes sees ...

Masks are once again being required for indoor areas at Great Sand ... s other national parks — Rocky Mountain National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, and Mesa Verde National ...

Rocky Mountain National Park, to Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Mesa Verde and Great Sand Dunes national parks. Each has stunning and memorable features, making it hard to pick one over the other.

A hiker at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Mosca, Colorado. We’ve been going to Colorado for decades. But always to the same family-connected places: Estes Park, Rocky ...

MOSCA, Colo. (KDVR) — Great Sand Dunes National Park is growing. About 9,362 acres of land in the neighboring Medano-Zapata Ranch has been transferred to the park, the U.S. Department of the ...