Excellent service! - Great tour with Jay, lots of info about the park and the people of long ago. Jay is an excellent tour guide who lives on the sunny side of life. The customer service with Mild to Wild was top notch from the booking questions to departing questions with our guide. We will book again when we are out this way!

Marvelous Mesa Verde - Our Mesa Verde tour was so positive with Tosh as our tour guide. We learned the incredible history and customs of these ancient cultures. Tosh was very personable and knowledgeable , making the tour more enjoyable. This experience was one to always remember.

Awesome educational 1/2 day trip - Jerry our guide was fantastic so knowledgeable about the area really gave us a wonderful education and experience in Mesa verde. I highly recommend this trip and our guide!!

Amazing - Jerry, our guide was wonderful! Very informative, considerate, funny! He showed us all the top highlights of Mesa Verde and was extremely well informed about the history/ culture of the Pueblos and the area.

Such a worthwhile tour! - We would never hav e found out so mucha bout mesa Verde if it wasn't for our kind, happy guide Jay - he was jeu smashing!!

In the footsteps of the Anasazi - The roads in this UNESCO World Heritage Site are open from 7:30 a.m. until sunset, and Ranger David Franks, whom we probably met in front of the Ranger Station next to the archaeological museum up above, also ensures that no one gets lost. Only the Visitor Center was closed, and a visitor said in passing that there was more snow here than there had been in 8(0) years. After cattle farmers first drew attention to it in 1888, researchers found 4,000 archaeological sites on this enormous table mountain. The steep eastern slopes of the mesa were covered in snow and we drove along the North Rim and then over the Chapin Mesa about 38 km directly to Cliff Palace. The Cliff Palace Loop, about 10 km long, is closed in winter, according to the travel guide and brochures, and opens at the beginning of April, and only for booked tours. The rangers must have turned a blind eye to this. An estimated 100 to a maximum of 200 people of the Anasazi people lived in the bricked rooms of this 88 m long and 18 m high rock niche from 1190 to around 1300. However, this area was inhabited much earlier, as the excavation of pit houses from around 600 revealed. Several of them were open to visitors under tarpaulins. We also hardly met any visitors at the Balcony House on the opposite side of the loop, whose approx. 45 rooms were only excavated in 1910, and at the Oak Tree House right next to it, both of which were inhabited at the same time as the Cliff Palace. With a guided tour, you would have been able to enter the dwellings via a ladder and a tunnel, for example. We drove back to the start of this loop and turned onto the Mesa Top Loop, which is also around 10 km long. Our destination was a so-called Sun Temple, which was built from around 1200 and poses many mysteries. This is where people from the surrounding rock villages met, perhaps to observe the movement of the stars. The road to the neighboring Weatherhill Mesa was still closed. On the long way back - we reached an altitude of over 2500 m three times - we were accompanied by sun-drenched mist between the sugar-coated mountain slopes. After a good 100 km, as if guided by magic - OK, with GPS - we found our Econo Lodge Inn in Durango on the straightest route, and at exactly 6 o'clock, just in time for dinner. Today, at least for me, there was poutine, a specialty of Canadian origin with potato wedges, cheese curds and gravy on top, and Californian red wine of the Cabernet Sauvignon variety - excellent.

Our tour guide Tosh was... - Our tour guide Tosh was great. Wonderful knowledge of the ruins and the culture of the Pueblo and Ute people

Very Informative - Our driver/guide, Miles was informative, personable and his driving was professional (relaxing). Mesa Verde has a lot of history, beautiful scenery and is just amazing! This is our second tour through TripAdvisor and we haven’t been disappointed on either one.

Good guide but does not go inside ruins. - Our guide, Jerry was great. He was knowledgeable, funny, and kept things interesting. The tour description didn’t say anything about not being able to go inside the ruins. You have to have a reservation with the Park Rangers for that. I assumed maybe the tour group would have a situation worked out so they could tour them or get the tickets in advance for us. We basically just drove to some of the sites and saw them from a distance. You can do that on your own and spend as much time as you want at each one. We also skipped a lot of sites. Knowledgeable guide, but I would have done it on my own if I would have known it was just the same as driving yourself.

Does not go into cliff side dwellings. See all of this your on your own. Read the guidemap given at the welcome center. - “Up close and personal…” was not that. This tour does not go into the cliff side dwellings as assumed. You have to have a reservation with the park service, which I assumed for $130, the tour group would have gotten or at least had a deal to go inside as a tour guide. Everything we saw and did, you can do just by going to the park and driving through on your own. We skipped over many of the stops because of the time allotted so we actually missed more than driving through on our own.