Welcome to Travel Tuesday! We’re back in Colorado this week and headed over to one of my first visits in Colorado Springs–the Manitou Cliff Dwellings!
Manitou Cliff Dwellings
Address: 10 Cliff Rd, Manitou Springs, CO 80829
Hours:
January-February + December: 10am – 4pm
March-April/September-October: 9am – 5pm
May-August: 9am – 6pm
November: 9am – 4pm
Admission: $12 (adults), $7.50 (children 4-11yo), $9 (seniors 60+), free (children 3 or under, adults over 100, individuals in wheelchairs)
Parking: Free
The Manitou Cliff Dwellings was originally located in the southwest corner of Colorado near Mesa Verde, but was relocated over to Colorado Springs in 1904-1907 in an attempt to preserve them (and protect them from looters).
You’re allowed to walk around/through all the rooms (but not into the kiva). The Anasazi Museum is a bitsmall, but has a lot of different dioramas and exhibits that teach you more about their daily life.
This is the kiva! Don’t jump/climb in here!
The dwellings are on a slope and have a lot of steps and narrow passageways, so it’s not wheelchair-accessible, but there is a wheelchair-accessible ramp that lets you see most of the cliff dwellings from the front.
There was also a lot of info on different plants that were used for different remedies!
- Pets are allowed as long as they’re leashed!
- There’s also a snack bar and picnic patio if you get hungry!
- You can buy legal reproductions + photographs of ancient artifacts or modern Native American-made pottery, jewelry, flint-knapped knives and artifacts in the gift shop.
- Have you ever heard of the Manitou Cliff Dwellings?
- What’s the last place you explored?
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I have been to Colorado Springs at least four times in my life and never knew this existed! You have me wanting to go back! Thank you for writing this piece! Glad you got to explore!
This looks magical! I have been to Colorado Springs at least four times in my life and never knew this existed! You have me wanting to go back! Thank you for writing this piece! Glad you got to explore!
I hope you get to go back sometime! :] I’d love to go back to explore more–there was so much more I wanted to do while I was there!
Wooow those Manitou Cliff Dwellings are really cool! It looks like an amazing location too, are there places to hike nearby?
It was fun to check out! Colorado Springs has a tonnnnn of places to hike nearby too–I went on multiple hikes per day in the few days I stayed there and barely scratched the surface!
Wow I didnt even know these existed, looks like it would be a great place to hike and spend a day picnicking!
It was a fun place to visit! :] I need to go back to Colorado Springs! :]!
Oh these are so neat. Crazy that they had to relocate them, that must have been a HUGE job. I will put them on my to-visit list when we visit Colorado, hopefully soon! Thanks for sharing.
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Right?! I can’t imagine having to relocate them, but they did a great job! I never would’ve known if I didn’t read about that happening, haha. I hope you get to go soon too!
amazing place you got there! It is very unique and cool. Love to visit this one day!
Yay! I hope you get to go someday! :D!
I spent several summers in Manitou and yet somehow I didn’t know they had cliff dwellings there!! I wish I had known because I think cliff dwellings are so cool – Mesa Verde is one of my favorite national parks! Moving these from Mesa Verde must have been quite the operation.
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Aww, I’m sorry! I feel like that about where I grew up–I just moved back there and there are so many places I never knew about before that I’m only just discovering now!
For a second I thought this maybe was in Mexico! Wow, I had no idea this existed in Colorado. I have only been to Colorado once but am dying to go back! I need nature in my life haha.
Me toooo! I went to Colorado for the first time last year and really wanna go back to explore more! It’s such a beautiful state!!
I love Colorado Springs, but I have not visited the Manitou Cliff Dwellings! I will have to next time. Especially because dogs are allowed! :) thanks for sharing these tips!
Yay! I don’t have a dog yet, but I really want to adopt one in the future, so I’m trying to pay attention to which places are dog-friendly vs not! :P