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The Best Attractions In Navajo Dam

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Navajo Dam is a census-designated place in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 281 as of the 2010 census. Navajo Dam has a post office with ZIP code 87419. The community is located in the vicinity of Navajo Dam.
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  • 1. Navajo Lake State Park Navajo Dam
    For the lake in Utah see Navajo Lake Navajo Lake is a reservoir located in San Juan County and Rio Arriba County in northwestern New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. Portions of the reservoir extend into Archuleta County in southern Colorado. The lake is part of the Colorado River Storage Project, which here manages the upper reaches of the San Juan River, storing and releasing water that is used locally for irrigation, or ultimately reaching the Colorado River in Utah. Water is impounded in Navajo Lake by the earth- and rock-filled Navajo Dam, 3,800 feet long and 400 feet high, completed in 1962. The 15,600-acre lake is over 25 miles long and lies at an elevation of up to 6,085 feet . The construction of the dam and the resulting lake flooded and destroyed one of the Navajos' mo...
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  • 2. Cliff Palace Mesa Verde National Park
    Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. The cliff dwelling and park are in the southwestern corner of Colorado, in the Southwestern United States.
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  • 6. Million Dollar Highway Silverton
    U.S. Route 550 is a spur of U.S. Highway 50 that runs from Bernalillo, New Mexico to Montrose, Colorado in the western United States. The section from Silverton to Ouray is frequently called the Million Dollar Highway.It is one of the roads on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways.
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  • 7. Aztec Ruins National Monument Aztec
    The Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves Ancestral Puebloan structures in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico. This national monument is close to both the town of Aztec and the Animas River, and it is about 12 miles northeast of Farmington, New Mexico. The Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park, which also has Puebloan structures, is about 9.5 miles south of the monument. The Aztec ruins date from the 11th to the 13th centuries. American settlers in the 19th century named them the Aztec ruins based on their erroneous belief that the Aztec civilization built them.The site was declared Aztec Ruin National Monument on January 24, 1923. After a boundary change, Ruin was changed to Ruins on July 2, 1928. As a historical property of the National Park Service, the monument was admini...
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