In this show I wanted to share stories and whatnots about Mesa Verde National Park in the southwest corner of Colorado. I’ve been there repeatedly and have done escorted tours thru the Park but after a bunch of research a complete visit to the Park needs to start some 370 miles to the northeast and 7 hours away from Mesa Verde in Denver. Although the area we call Mesa Verde is thought to have been occupied between AD ~600 to ~1300, it wasn’t till the late 1880s a homesteading family, the Wetherill’s, moved to the Mancos Valley and began to explore the mesa.