Today is a combined travel/sight-seeing day that will take us from Lake Mead, Arizona to Mesa Verde National Park in South-Western Colorado. The drive itself is approximately 510 miles and should take about 9 hours to complete, however, this does not include sight-seeing time.
Our first stop, will be at Hoover Dam for a brief sightseeing tour. Tours of the dam don't open until 9:00 am, so I plan to get there well before that so that we can hopefully be on the first tour. I'm assuming that we'll spend at most 2 hours here, and be back on the road by 11:00 am.
From Hoover Dam, we will continue East on our way to Mesa Verde National Park. At one point, we'll be about 60 miles away from Grand Canyon National Park, however, we're going to save that one for another trip! When we reach Flagstaff, Arizona, we'll turn Northeast on our way to Colorado.
This route will take us past the Four Corners Monument, a Navajo Nation park marking the only location in the United States where four states meet: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. We plan to make a brief stop at the monument for a photo opportunity.
From there, we will continue on our journey to Mesa Verde National Park. Given the fact that we won't be getting on the road until close to 11:00 am, I'm expecting to arrive around 7:00 or 8:00 pm, after the long drive.
We're going to need to get things set up quickly so that we can get dinner made, and have a little time to spend relaxing before we go to sleep. Tomorrow will be spent touring Mesa Verde National Park.
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