• View of Spruce Tree House from overlook

    Mesa Verde

    National Park Colorado

Your Dollars At Work

New biodiesel tram

Three environmentally friendly biodiesel trams have recently replaced the old gasoline powered trams at Wetherill Mesa.

NPS Photo

Mesa Verde National Park is a participant in the Interagency Recreational Fee Demonstration Program. The program authorizes participating parks to keep 80% of the entrance 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 information on how your dollars are being used at Mesa Verde National Park, please use the following link.


Did You Know?

View of the House of Many Windows cliff dwelling

Ninety percent of Mesa Verde’s cliff dwellings contain 10 rooms or less. One-third have only one or two rooms. This should help to put the more famous cliff dwellings of Cliff Palace (150 rooms), Long House (150 rooms), Spruce Tree House (130 rooms), and Balcony House (40 rooms) into perspective.