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Point Lookout , a landform visible from the park entrance. (NPS Photo) Park schedules vary seasonally. Click on more>>link below for Park schedules.
Plan to spend at least 3 hours at Mesa Verde. 2 hours of this time will be spent driving in and out of the park. Your first stop should be at the Far View Visitor Center, 15 miles from the park entrance, for information and orientation. Visit the Chapin Mesa Museum and Spruce Tree House. Another option is to drive the Mesa Top Loop Drive.
Stop at the Far View Visitor Center for information and orientation. Purchase tour tickets for a Cliff Palace or Balcony House tour. Visit the Chapin Mesa Museum and Spruce Tree House. Drive the Mesa Top Loop Road.
Visit the Far View Visitor Center to purchase tour tickets for a Cliff Palace or Balcony House Tour. Visit the Chapin Mesa Museum and Spruce Tree House. Explore your hiking opportunities near the museum.
Purchase tickets to Cliff Palace or Balcony House, depending on what you visited yesterday. Drive the Mesa Top Loop Road. Take time to enjoy the wayside exhibits and overlooks. Visit Far View Sites Complex. Finish the day by taking another hike near the museum, on the Mesa Top Loop Road, or near the campground. Another option is to visit Wetherill Mesa to tour Long House or Step House.
Purchase your $2.75 tour tickets for Cliff Palace, Balcony House and Long House at the Far View Visitor Center.
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.