Cortez has 19 hiking trails. These trails range from 0.5 to 15 miles in length. The most popular trails are Mesa Verde National Park Trails, Sand Canyon and Petroglyph Point Trail. Trails.com member Wendy W. recently completed Petroglyph Point- Mesa Verde National Park.
Sand CanyonView Trail Details
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Cortez, CO
Characterized by sandstone canyons and broad mesas, the southwestern corner of Colorado features a variety of prehistoric cliff dwellings and ...
Sand Canyon TrailView Trail Details
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The Sand Canyon Trail is west of Cortez in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument created in June 2000. Winding first over slickrock, ...
Petroglyph Point TrailView Trail Details
Adventure-seekers will love this ruggedly gorgeous hike with many fascinating features, including a visit to Mesa Verde’s best-preserved cliff ...
Sand Canyon contains one of the most interesting and accessible collections of Anasazi cliff dwellings outside Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. ...
This hike takes you below the rim of Spruce Tree Canyon along a self-guided trail, up and down various steps, between huge rocks, through skinny ...
HovenweepView Trail Details
This is an amazing short hike around a seemingly desolate canyon that once teemed with human life. The “tower” ruins at Hovenweep are among the ...
Mesa Verde National Park TrailsView Trail Details
Mesa Verde National Park's three small wilderness segments are unique because they are closed to the public in order to protect fragile archeological ...
Soda Canyon OverlooksView Trail Details
This short hike on Chapin Mesa, to three tightly spaced and possibly redundant overlooks, gives you a different perspective on life in the c ...
Square Tower Trail: Hovenweep National MonumentView Trail Details
The Square Tower Trail in Hovenweep National Monument is an excellent adventure for families. This 1.75-mile round-trip hike takes hikers for ...
McElmo LoopView Trail Details
More than a mere leg-stretcher, this hike from the Sand Canyon Trailhead tours Ancestral Puebloan ruins in ruggedly beautiful canyon country ...
Sand Canyon Trail: Canyons of the Ancients National MonumentView Trail Details
The Sand Canyon Trail in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument offers numerous recreational opportunities to locals as well as to visitors ...
Petroglyph Point Loop TrailView Trail Details
On this loop trail, hikers discover how prehistoric American Indians fulfilled their needs for food, shelter, and clothing while living ...
Sand Canyon and East Rock Creek LoopView Trail Details
From about 900 to 1300 AD, the Four Corners area, where Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico abut, was home to a vast group of people now ...
Dominguez-Escalante TrailView Trail Details
This paved, wheelchair-accessible trail to an ancient dwelling site overlooking several mountain ranges will delight children of all ages. Interpretive ...
Cutthroat Castle- Hovenweep National MonumentView Trail Details
This short trail leads to the remarkable ancestral ruins of Cutthroat Castle and a glimpse of Puebloan life in the arid southwest 800 years ago. ...
Sand Canyon- Canyon of the Ancients National MonumentView Trail Details
Remnants of ancestral Puebloan homes are scattered throughout the incredible 171,000-acre Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, straddling ...
Petroglyph Point- Mesa Verde National ParkView Trail Details
While most tourists visit the large cliff dwellings found here, a hike to Petroglyph Point takes you away from the crowds and into one of the ...
Geyser SpringView Trail Details
There are hot springs scattered across Western Colorado—from Steamboat Springs in northwest Colorado, to Glenwood Springs in west-central Colorado, ...
