From the monument follow U.S. Route 160 At the intersection of State Road-41, the northwesterly road leads to the Utah Trail of the Ancients in a northeasterly direction to the junction of U.S. Route 491.
At Cortez, Main Street / U.S. 160 runs east to the entrance of Mesa Verde National Park,[REF] a U.S. national park preserving over 4000 archaeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, of the Ancestral Pueblo people [REF].