I think most of us have looked at photos from this park and it’s just as impressive in real life. This is high desert and the park is located at an altitude from 6100-8400 feet. The dwellings were built somewhere around 1190 by Ancestral Puebloans and by 1300 the occupation of Mesa Verde by the Puebloans ended.  The park has really nice roads with lots of twists and hills and overall it’s just a nice park to cruise around.