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On average, Mesa Verde National Park near Cortez Colorado has between 500,000 to 600,000 with a high of 742,080 in 1992 and low of 445,400 in 1974. By contrast, Smoky Mountain NP, the most visited park, had 14,000,000 visitors in 2021 followed by Zion far below with 5,000,000. The park was established in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt and is a Unesco World Heritage site:
"A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m. Some 4,400 sites have been recorded, including villages built on the Mesa top. There are also imposing cliff dwellings, built of stone and comprising more than 100 rooms." Unesco.
There are only 2 bike climbs in this national park, but they can be viewed on this page via the map (zoom in to view climbs in particular areas), by Climb Cards (photo and stats) or by a detailed list of the climbs that can be arranged in metric or imperial units by difficulty, distance (longest climbs in the area), altitude gained, highest elevation (highest summit), average grade (sort the grades by varying distances), lowest start point, etc. Click on "Climb Page" to jump to the detail page for that particular bike climb. We feel this page provides an excellent and comprehensive summary of the top, hardest and best bicycling climbs in Mesa Verde NP.
The Top 10 Bike Climbs in and around Mesa Verde are 1. Mesa Verde NP (Entrance to Park Point), and 2. Mesa Verde NP - Chapin Mesa to Park Point
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