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With four seasons of activities, Mesa Verde Country is a year-round destination. Since Cortez, Dolores and other towns in the Four Corners area enjoy warmer temperatures in the fall than the rest of the state, it's a great time to take in the region's sights. The quieter winter season is another excellent time to visit, when trails and attractions are still open for business but experience fewer visitors.

Explore Fall & Winter in Mesa Verde Country

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There are special places and unique vistas around nearly every Colorado corner. You can help ensure these places exist for generations to come by staying on roads and trails, keeping speeds in check, leaving campsites and picnic spots just as you found them, and following instructional signs while you’re out and about in our state.

Travel Like a Local

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Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum contains a 3.5 million-item research collection. Exhibits interpret the history and culture of the Four Corners region including Ancestral Puebloans; historic Pueblo, Ute and Navajo Native Americans; and Anglo settlers.

Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Visitor Center and Museum, BLM

When you have mighty Telluride for a neighbor, you need something pretty cool to be noticed. High in the San Juan Mountain Range, in a town smaller than a mile, sits the 6th Oldest Bar in Colorado.

Enterprise Bar & Grill

We are an outdoor sporting goods store that is also a gas station/convenience store. We do carry diesel and ethanol free 86 and 91 octane fuel for boats, ATVs, and a lot of cars that require it. You can rent kayaks, tubes, paddle boards, Jeeps, and side-by-sides here.

Dolores Outfitters

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Rent a Jeep or side-by-side vehicle from Dolores Outfitters to explore the area's off-road trails. They can also offer advice on all of the best routes.

Go Off-Roading

Delicious sushi rolls, sashimi, nigiri and other specialties. Open for lunch and dinner; happy hour Tuesday through Friday at 4:30pm.

Stonefish Sushi & More

Every community should have a comfortable place to hang out with somebody!

Dolores River Brewery

Critter Mountain Ranch is a working Alpaca Ranch surrounded by pinion, juniper, and gamble oak. The 1600-square-foot ranch house is on 40 acres with spectacular mountain views. It has two bedrooms, two baths, and two high quality double bed futons for extra guests.

Critter Mountain Ranch

Shop Dolores Food Market, your Gourmet Convenience Store with local flair. Discover the Unexpected Gourmet selection of fresh produce, custom cut meat, ready-to-eat deli meals and home-made baked goodies.

Dolores Food Market

Serving Thai lunch and dinner specialties in Cortez.

Thai Cortez

American Indian rugs, jewelry, pottery and an extensive display of historic American Indian art and artifacts.

Notah Dineh Trading Co

The Farm Bistro is a casual yet elegant farm to table restaurant in the heart of historic downtown Cortez, Colorado. The lunch and dinner menus are comfort food with style, and features locally grown produce and meat, and is a hub for diners seeking fresh and flavorful cuisine. The cozy lounge serves all-Colorado spirits, beer and wine. Customers can buy local produce and eggs, body care products, locally roasted coffee, music, crafts and more at the year-round farm stand. Travelers seeking good food find a welcoming environment that features an art gallery, a selection of used books focused on sustainable living and a community bulletin board. 
At The Farm Bistro in Cortez, you're likely to be sitting next to the farmer who grew your lunch or dinner! Rusty and Laurie Hall's restaurant is an extension of their Mancos farm which, along with other local growers, provides much of the meat and produce. They believe that access to locally grown food is key to a community's well being.

The Farm Bistro

The Sunflower Theatre presents performing arts, musical, cinematic, and educational events to enrich the cultural experience of a diverse rural audience in the Four Corners Region.

Sunflower Theatre

Located off Highway 160 in scenic Southwest Colorado. Take in the sweeping views of La Plata, the Blue Mountains, and Mesa Verde Ridge from your room. Our 100% non-smoking hotel is just minutes from Four Corners and other attractions.

Baymont Inn & Suites Cortez

Beny's Diner in Cortez has been serving breakfast and lunch for 13 years. All of our food is homemade, including the hash browns.

Beny's Diner

Lee Cloy has 40 years of experience in many types of martial arts, with emphasis on Tai Chi for the last 25 years. As a Master of these arts, and through the combination of his own skills in several styles, Lee’s Tai Chi has evolved into a unique form. He places focus on bringing about healing and regeneration in both body and spirit.

Tai Chi Lessons at Willowtail Springs

Grab fresh-brewed coffee, smoothies, specialty frozen-espresso drinks and breakfast burritos.

Fahrenheit Coffee Roasters

We want to welcome you as our guest to the nation's richest archeological preserve, where amazing cliff dwellings and more than 4,000 ancient sites.

Mesa Verde National Park

Mancos Brewing Company provides great beer in a relaxed setting . Come in and sit down, order a beer (or a glass of wine) and a bite of food.  We also offer a rotating selection of bottled beer for purchase, to drink on site or take home. We aim to be a true public house - a place to meet a friend, or make a new one - a place to gather together for any and all reason.

Mancos Brewing Company

Facilitated by a vibrant community of more than 150 artists, the growing downtown <a href="http://www.mancoscreativedistrict.com/">Mancos Creative District</a> has eight galleries, a historic opera house and countless locally owned businesses.

Mancos Creative District

Mesa Verde vacation in the heart of southwest Colorado. Private, secluded, elegant lakeside cabins, fishing, gear, boats on private lake. Kitchens, wonderful bedding, fireplaces, art, fresh bouquets, libraries, spa products, gardens, streams, woods, views, birding.