Mancos State Park
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Mancos State Park | |
Colorado State Park | |
Jackson Gulch Reservoir and the La Plata Mountains in Mancos State Park
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Country | United States |
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State | Colorado |
County | Montezuma |
City | Mancos |
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Area | 553 acres (224 ha) |
Founded | 1987 |
Management | Colorado State Parks |
IUCN category | V - Protected Landscape/Seascape |
Mancos State Park is a Colorado state park. It is located near Mesa Verde National Park, the West Mancos Trailhead and the San Juan Skyway.[1] The park is known to have been a dwelling place for Ancestral Puebloans. They lived in the Four Corners area in ancient times from AD 1 to 1300. It was also later controlled by the Spanish for 200 years from the 17th to the 19th century.
In 1948 the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation commissioned the Jackson Gulch Dam, and it was officially included as a part of the Colorado state parks in 1987.[2]
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- Dams completed in 1949