Visit Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center, Colorado

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Mesa Verde National Park opened its new Visitor and Research Center in mid-December, 2012. This new LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building, located at the park entrance, replaced the aging Far View Visitor Center as the park's primary facility for orienting visitors to opportunities within the park and surrounding area. It also houses a state-of-the-art research and storage facility for the park's archives and museum collection of over three million objects. Be sure to make the Mesa Verde Visitor Center your first stop if you wish to visit Cliff Palace, Balcony House, or Long House. If you plan to visit any of these three cliff dwellings, you must purchase tickets here first.* Park entrance fees are collected here from early January to early March. The visitor center exhibits are designed to help visitors plan their visit to the park and to offer glimpses into the richness of Ancestral Puebloan culture and daily life. You'll also find exhibits highlighting: the modern descendants of the Ancestral Pueblo people the park's museum and research collection the building's energy-saving and sustainablility features several original sculptures and other pieces of art that reflect modern artists' perspectives on Mesa Verde, its people and landscape

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