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Mesa Verde National Park
Your Dollars At Work
New sign and wayside at the geologic overlook.

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Rehabilitation of Geologic Overlook after Chapin #5 Fire

Mesa Verde National Park is a participant in the Interagency Recreational Fee Demonstration Program. The program authorizes participating parks to keep 80% of the fees collected. These funds have been and will continue to be used for backlogged maintenance, repair projects, interpretation and education, signage, and natural and historical resource preservation. The remaining 20% is distributed to parks that are not part of the program but have similar needs, and other service-wide initiatives.

 

 


 


For more information on how your dollars have been at work at Mesa Verde National Park, please use the following link. (To get the Free Adobe Reader, which is required to read the pdf file, click here.)

Kiva courtyard at Spruce Tree House  

Did You Know?
A subterranean kiva remained 50 degrees Fahrenheit all year round. So for the Ancestral Puebloans, it stayed cool in the summer, and only a small fire was needed to keep it warm in the winter.

Last Updated: July 28, 2006 at 19:07 EST