Directions & Transportation

 

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The directions listed on this page are for the park’s visitor center, located within the Square Tower Group. From the visitor center, the Square Tower Group structures and the campground are easy to access.

Park Address:

Hovenweep National Monument is scattered across a 20-mile span along the southeast Utah and southwest Colorado border. The closest town is Aneth, UT, approximately 18 miles southeast of the park visitor center.

Physical Address:

Hovenweep National Monument Visitor Center
Montezuma Creek, UT 84534

 

Other Hovenweep Units

If you plan to visit our outlying units, we highly recommend stopping at the visitor center for detailed directions and updated road conditions. Directions and descriptions of outlying units may also be found in each site’s page under Places to Go.

 

Road signs are metal or wood, brown in color, with white lettering. These signs are at turns on most major navigational routes.

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Wayfinding

GPS

If you use a GPS or a navigation app on your phone, make sure that your destination is the Hovenweep National Monument Visitor Center. Otherwise, your navigation system may take you to one of the remote outlying units.

Please make sure the route recommended by your navigation system matches one of the routes below. If you take another route, you may encounter unpaved roads that may be very rough. Cell service may be spotty or unavailable on your route.

NPS App

The NPS app (available for Android or Apple OS) allows you to download parks for offline use. The park information includes a park map showing the visitor center. If you are using the NPS app, we recommend saving Hovenweep National Monument for offline use.

Road Signs

There are directional road signs at each of the major turns along the route to the Hovenweep Visitor Center. Look for the brown signs with Hovenweep on them to help navigate. Other road signs, including road numbers or names, may change or may be named differently on different maps.

 

Directions from Nearby Towns

Click on the town to see the directions to Hovenweep's visitor center.

Cortez, CO (42 miles / ~1 hour drive either route)

Blanding, UT (45 miles / 1 hour drive)

Bluff, UT (42 miles / 1 hour drive)

 

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Commercial / Public Transportation

By Bus

Commercial bus and van shuttles service nearby towns, but they do not travel directly to Hovenweep.

By Plane

Commercial airlines serve Cortez, Durango, and Grand Junction, Colorado; Salt Lake City and Moab, Utah; and Albuquerque, New Mexico; as well as other cities in the Four Corners area.

Public Transportation

There is no public transportation to or within Hovenweep.