Farming Terraces, Mesa Verde National Park

Beautiful canyon and check dams to be seen here. Nothing else. Ancestral Pueblo People often constructed numerous check dams across ravines to capture soil and form moist, fertile terraces... 

Beautiful canyon and check dams to be seen here. Nothing else. Ancestral Pueblo People often constructed numerous check dams across ravines to capture soil and form moist, fertile terraces...  more »

Nice hike. I actually didn't do the whole thing as it was getting late and it was the last place I stopped before leaving the park. However, I did walk down to the actual remnants of the terraced... 

Nice hike. I actually didn't do the whole thing as it was getting late and it was the last place I stopped before leaving the park. However, I did walk down to the actual remnants of the terraced...  more »