Know Before You Go . . . Ten Steps to Adventure!

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Tour the Southwest like never before! Ten Steps to Adventure! Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance provides educated and experienced 1. Call 970-560-1643 or email guides to help you get the most out of [email protected] at least 24 your visit. We offer half-day, full-day and other varieties of adventures for all ages hours in advance of your tour. and fitness levels. 2. Discuss which tour is best for you. You will be required to sign a Release of 3. Go to www.swcocanyons.org/ Liability prior to your trip. tours to sign your Release of Liability (option: your guide can Checklist for ALL tours: provide a paper copy prior to • Appropriate clothing (ask first) your tour). • Boots (recommended on strenuous hikes) or athletic shoes 4. Go to bit.ly/onwardfoundation to • Hats (strongly recommended) pay for your tour (option: if • WATER (1 gallon/day on full-day reserving at least a week in hikes) advance, mail a check to address • Food (snacks and lunch) below). • Sunscreen • Insect repellent (Terra-Shield 5. Make sure you have everything recommended May-June for gnats) you need for your adventure. • Gaiters for backcountry hiking 6. Bring plenty of water!

We provide interpretive tours on 7. Meet your guide. Ancestral Pueblo culture, the natural 8. Have a wonderful time! environment and archaeology, with messages of Visit with Respect and Leave 9. Gratuities to your fabulous guide No Trace. encouraged! • ALL FITNESS LEVELS KNOWLEDGEABLE LOCAL 10. Like us on Facebook and Trip • CALL TODAY FOR YOUR TOUR GUIDES TOMORROW! Advisor! • GAIN A DEEPER APPRECIATION

Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance OF ANCESTRAL PUEBLO AR- Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance CHAEOLOGY & CULTURE P.O. Box 113 Phone: 970-560-1643 Cortez, CO 81321 • TAILOR-MADE ACTIVITIES FOR E-mail: [email protected] THE ENTIRE FAMILY! Phone: 970-560-1643 E-mail: [email protected] WWW.SWCOCANYONS.ORG/TOURS [email protected] 970-560-1643 LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! Easy Tour Easy-Moderate Hikes More Challenging Adventures

Panoramic Monument Tour: Begin your adventure Lowry Pueblo Community Hike: Meet your guide at Petroglyph Adventures: Get an early start in at Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Lowry Pueblo. After learning about the amazing summer as weather is HOT and DRY. Meet your Museum with a guided explanation of museum history of Lowry as a Chaco Great House and Great guide at the new Sand Canyon parking area, County collections. Learn about the deep history of Kiva, visit adjacent Great Houses and remains of the Road G just west of Road J. Travel to the occupation in the Four Corners and visit 12th area communities. Travel forward in time as you undisclosed parking area for a look at how people Century pueblos on the museum campus. Next, you visit Canyon House, a later village of outstanding lived through time in an extremely dry and rocky and your guide will travel through beautiful proportions! (Combine this tour with Painted Hand environment. After viewing a 13th century boulder Montezuma Valley to visit Sand Canyon Pueblo, a at a 10% discount!) pueblo and its petroglyphs, journey up the mesa to late 13th century village that was once home to as Distance: 3-ish miles learn about defensive postures and a much earlier many as 500 people. Finally, you will visit the Time: 3-4 hours habitation (ca CE 800). Wind your way down and spectacular Lowry Pueblo, an 11th century great Price: $150 for up to 4 people; $15 for each around past hidden walls and unnamed places of house that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary person over 4. the past. Finally, marvel at a most amazing rock art as a National Historic Landmark. Athletic or hiking shoes recommended panel and learn how people have left their marks for Time: 5-7 hours Easy to moderate; navigation through brush hundreds of years. (Combine this tour with Sand Price: $250 for up to 4 people; $25 for each and rocks Canyon Half-Day at a 10% discount!) person over 4. Price includes museum Distance: approximately 5 rough miles entrance fee. Painted Hand Pueblo Community Hike: Meet your Time: 5 hours Add $45 if your guide needs to drive his/her guide on County Road 10 at BLM 4531. Hike to one Price: $200 for up to 4 people; $20 each over 4. own car. of Southwest Colorado’s most photographed and Elevation gain: 375 feet Note: while easy, Sand Canyon Pueblo will have celebrated pueblos! This moderately sized Long pants and weed gaiters recommended uneven ground. community, complete with towers and rock art, Appropriate clothing for the season, long exemplifies gathering places of the Pueblo III time Sand Canyon 3/4-Day: Meet your guide at the NEW sleeves for morning/evening even in period. (Combine this tour with Lowry at a 10% trail head on County Road G just past Road J. Travel summer, closed-toe shoes discount!) well-defined trails to Saddlehorn Pueblo, make the Distance: 2.5-ish miles loop toward East Rock Canyon and back to see a Family Time on the Monument Time: 3-4 hours “neighborhood of cliff dwellings” and structures on Price: $150 for up to 4 people; $15 for each top of the mesa. Fun for the whole family! Spend a half-day learning person over 4. Distance: 5-ish miles about the Ancestral Pueblo people, listen to stories, Athletic or hiking shoes recommended Time: 5-6 hours and participate in hands-on activities. Recommend- Easy to moderate; navigation through brush Price: $200 for up to 4 people; $20 each over 4. ed for parents and children ages 5-13. and descending through boulders Elevation gain: 600 feet Sand Canyon Full-Day: (Meet your guide at the Potential activities (age dependent) include atlatls Sand Canyon Hikes: Meet your guide at the parking main parking area on County Road G.) and spears, creating pendants, dragonflies, site area on County Road G. You will travel the well- Distance: 7-8 Miles tours, plants, geology, or others. defined trail encountering numerous late 13th Time: 6-7 hours • Life in the (Sand) Canyon: (includes hike to century pueblos and hear of the history of the Price: $225 for up to 4 people; $25 each over 4 Saddlehorn Pueblo, about 2 miles RT); $175 for people who created them. Elevation gain: 405 feet up to 5 people; $15 each over 5. Sand Canyon Half-Day Athletic or hiking shoes recommended • Livin’ at Lowry: (includes Lowry Pueblo tour); Distance: 4-ish miles Sand Canyon Really Full-Day: (Add to Full-Day) $175 for up to 5 people; $15 each over 5. Time: 3-4 hours Distance: approximately 9.5 miles Price: $150 for up to 4 people; $15 each over 4. Time: 8+ hours • A Day at the Museum: (includes museum entry Elevation gain: 325 feet Price: $275 for up to 4 people; $50 each over 4. fees and walk to Dominguez and Escalante Combine this hike with the challenging Petroglyph Elevation gain: 405 feet Pueblos, 1 mile RT); $200 for up to 5 people; Adventures at a 10% discount! $20 each over 5.