Hovenweep National Monument

Hovenweep National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table).

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Hovenweep National Monument

National monument, southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, U.S. Established in 1923 and covering 785 acres (318 hectares), it consists of six groups of pre-Columbian Indian ruins, whose towers are excellent examples of Pueblo Indian architecture of the period AD 1100–1300. Hovenweep is a Ute Indian word meaning “deserted valley.”

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Hovenweep National Monument

Parks Directory of the United States / US National Parks / National Monuments

Address: McElmo Rt
Cortez, CO 81321
Phone: 970-562-4282;
Fax: 970-562-4283;
Web: www.nps.gov/hove/
Size: 785 acres.
Established: Proclaimed on March 2, 1923.
Location: In southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. The only paved entrance road is UT 262, which runs east from US 191, 15 miles south of Blanding. Also accessible from Cortez, Colorado.
Facilities: Campground (31 sites), picnic area, rest rooms (é), ranger station, museum/exhibit, self-guided tour/trail.
Activities: Camping, hiking, interpretive programs.
Special Features: Monument protects six prehistoric, Puebloan-era villages spread over a twenty-mile expanse of mesa tops and canyons along the Utah-Colorado border. The first reports of these structures were made by W.D. Huntington, the leader of a Mormon expedition into southeastern Utah in 1854.

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See other parks in Colorado.