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Mesa Verde National Park Far View Complex
Near Far View Visitor Center, Self-Guided, no fee required.
The sites at Far View range across different periods in time!
The sites found at Far View are a series of surface structures that date to different time periods. Located close to each other and linked by a trail system are several excavated and stabilized sites that include Far View House, Pipe Shrine House, Coyote Village, Far View Reservoir, Megalithic House, and Far View Tower. Most of the sites found at Far View were probably built prior to the construction of Cliff Palace and other Cliff Dwellings.
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.