Yucca House National Monument


Yucca House National Monument preserves a large unexcavated pueblo with a stunning setting in Montezuma Valley, nestled between Mesa Verde and Ute Mountain. Since Yucca House was protected as a national monument in 1919, it has remained largely untouched, offering intrepid visitors a sense of discovery and preserving the pueblo's beauty and integrity for future generations.

From Cortez, take Hwy. 491 south approximately 8 miles. Take a right on MC County Road B (green sign), which is a dirt road one mile south of MC Road C. Drive 0.8 miles, crossing a paved road (MC Road 21), and take the next dirt road on the right (before the farmhouse on the left). Follow this road north and west for 1.4 miles, and head towards a white ranch house with a red roof on the west horizon. Once at the ranch house, Yucca House NM is on the left side if the driveway.

  • Guided Tours
  • Self-Guided Tours - Walking

  • Archeology
  • Native American Heritage
  • Animals

Yucca House Spring

Cattails with mesa in background.

Cattails define marshy locations watered by springs.

View of Mesa Verde from Yucca House

View of Mesa Verde landform

View of Mesa Verde above from Yucca House in the valley below.

Walls of the Yucca House Pueblo

Masonry walls seen through shrubbery

Ancient walls of Yucca House still standing today.

Ancestral Puebloan Wall at Yucca House

Close up view of an ancient wall at Yucca House

View of an Ancestral Puebloan wall still standing at Yucca House.

Yucca House in Context

View of ancient wall in the center of agricultural land surrounding it.

The Yucca House archeological site is surrounded by agricultural land today.