Uploaded September 2011 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Paul Ruiz took a trip with his grandpa, Anthony Mournian, to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Towaoc, Colorado. The park surrounds the more famous and heavily visited Mesa Verde, but contains magnificent ruins, petroglyphs and pictographs of the Ancient Ones, or Anasazi, among America's first Native Americans.
The trip took them into the Mancos River Canyon on three separate tours led by Rick Hayes and Scottie Jacket, members of the Northern Ute tribe. They picked up sherds of pottery left behind by the Anasazi, who in one of histories biggest mysteries vanished somewhere around 1250 A.D.
Paul Ruiz took a trip with his grandpa, Anthony Mournian, to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Towaoc, Colorado. The park surrounds the more famous and heavily visited Mesa Verde, but contains magnificent ruins, petroglyphs and pictographs of the Ancient Ones, or Anasazi, among America's first Native Americans.
The trip took them into the Mancos River Canyon on three separate tours led by Rick Hayes and Scottie Jacket, members of the Northern Ute tribe. They picked up sherds of pottery left behind by the Anasazi, who in one of histories biggest mysteries vanished somewhere around 1250 A.D.
