{"id":271,"date":"2005-10-05T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/canyons-of-the-ancients-national-monument\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T21:02:38","slug":"canyons-of-the-ancients-national-monument-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Canyons of the Ancients National Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DenverPost.com - SPORTS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/sports\/ci_3084471\">Four Corners region entices all types of outdoor enthusiasts<\/a> by Scott Willoughby, Denver Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Ranging from Mesa Verde National Park&#8217;s tranquil walking tours to do-it-yourself adventures within lesser-known Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, the Four Corners hub of Cortez combines a wealth of outdoor activity with rich Indian heritage and spectacular scenery. And to top it off, it&#8217;s almost always summer.<\/p>\n<p>Canyons of the Ancients<\/p>\n<p>Protected by former President Clinton in 2000, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is 3 miles west of Cortez and offers a unique variety of do-it-yourself recreational options in one of the densest archeological landscapes in the world. An estimated 30,000 archeological sites exist within the vast 164,000-acre monument, including 6,000 recorded sites in the form of cliff dwellings, shrines, petroglyphs and sweat lodges, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Corners region entices all types of outdoor enthusiasts by Scott Willoughby, Denver Post Staff Writer Ranging from Mesa Verde National Park&#8217;s tranquil walking tours to do-it-yourself adventures within lesser-known Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, the Four Corners hub of Cortez combines a wealth of outdoor activity with rich Indian heritage and spectacular scenery. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canyons of the Ancients National Monument<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}