Hovenweep National Monument

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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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