Escalante Ruin, Dolores CO
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94RedRover
N 37° 28.430 W 108° 32.801
12S E 716941 N 4150265
A visit to the Canyons of the Ancients, or the Hovenweep Monument, should begin with a trip to the Anasazi Cultural Center. This offers visitors information about the cultural ruins they are about to see, and have the best maps to get you around.
Waymark Code: WM3C0Q
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 03/12/2008
Views: 18
My coordinates are where we parked for the Anasazi Cultural Center. The Esclanate Pueblo Ruin is on the cultural center's grounds. We visited the museum, then took the 1/2 mile trail behind the center to the Escalante Ruin.
We learned that this site may have been inhabited at three different points in time...based on the ages of the wood used to construct additions to the original dwelling. Construction is dated around 1129 AD, but seems the dwelling was occupied for short periods of time (9 years or so). It's possible that this was used for surrounding village gatherings, or religious gatherings.
The National Register is listing this ruin as "underwater" but it sits high on the mesa top, overlooking the Dolores River...
The pueblo consists of 28 rooms and a kiva. There is evidence that some of the rooms were used as living quarters, signifying that this was not just used as a gathering spot, or storage.
The archeological evidence points to an occupation of a different culture in this pueblo around 1150 AD, and yet another around 1200 AD...ending the use of this pueblo.
Street address:
27501 Highway 184
Dolores, CO USA
81323
County / Borough / Parish: Montezuma County, CO
Year listed: 1975
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture, Prehistoric, Exploration/Settlement
Periods of significance: 1000-500 AD, 1499-1000 AD, 1750-1799
Historic function: Domestic/Religious
Current function: Museum, Historical
Season start / Season finish: From: 01/01/2008 To: 12/31/2008
Hours of operation: From: 9:00 AM To: 5:00 PM
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Privately owned?: Not Listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
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