Hovenweep National Monument

Walk canyon-rim trails past Ancestral Puebloan towers built between 1200 and 1300 CE on the Utah and Colorado border.

Square Tower Group visitor center, Utah and Colorado border · Blanding, UT

About Hovenweep National Monument

Hovenweep protects six groups of Ancestral Puebloan villages spread along the Utah and Colorado border, built mostly between 1230 and 1275. You walk rim trails past multistory towers in square, oval, round and D shapes, some perched on boulders, including Hovenweep Castle and the Twin Towers. In 2014 it became the first International Dark Sky Park to span two states, and GPS can be unreliable, so bring a map.

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