The photo is of Long House on the Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde N.P. This is a site you can see up close if you can climb ladders and perform other feats of daring-do. There is a fee for the tour. We chose to visit other sites, via the bumpy tram ride, and ended up at the overlook.
Driving in Mesa Verde is most entertaining. A main road, that may cover 120 feet as the crow flies, is 15-20 miles to the split for the two mesas, Chapin and Wetherill. This junction is Far View, which is called that for an obvious reason. There is a lodge, a restaurant, gift shop, and of course rest rooms. Chapin Mesa has two loop roads and Wetherill one, today's excursion. This road is 12 miles and may have contained one stretch that was flat and straight for 10 feet or so. Near the end you are driving what seems to be a ridge with eternity on your right and oblivion on your left, or maybe the other way around.
We went on the tram with the first Long House tour. This made us the only people on the tram past that point. We got off at a multi-village complex that after finishing you were at another tram stop. This took us to a couple of overlooks the latter of which provided the photo. The driver went with us on one walk and she was very knowledgeable of the flora so as much as I have tried to learn nothing I was forced to hear about pinon trees and Mormon tea. You can never be too careful.
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