A fantastic way to discover the beauty of the American Southwest while exploring easily accessible Ancient Ones ruins is to head towards Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado. Just on the border of Utah, off of Highway G, and north of Sleeping Ute Mountain is this amazingly colorful sandstone playground filled with the highest known density of Anasazi / Ancestral Puebloan Ruins in the entire Southwest. It is estimated there around 30,000 sites dating back since the time of the Mammoth Eaters. Although, the most exciting and visible sites are those of the Anasazi / Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the area around a thousand years ago.

For more information on the people who lived in the area, check out my podcast series I did entitled The Ancient Ones which covers the history of the people from their first arrival, right up to the Spanish. I include quite a few gruesome tidbits of information from this area specifically.

Click the pictures below to see either the Visitor Center & Museum or the Sand Canyon & East Rock Creek Loop.