Swemb Birt Day 6

 We left Ouray and headed to Cortez, Colorado so that we could wake up early and hike Mesa Verde National Park.  This would be our fourth national park of the trip.  Mesa Verde was interesting and held a lot of history.  We spent the first part of the morning listening to a 45 minute lecture about the ruins at Balcony house and then we hiked Cliff Palace, which was much cooler.

The boys were excited to leave Mesa Verde because we were headed to Pagosa Springs!  We had plans of getting dinner and going straight to the river to play in the hot springs.