Anasazi State Park Museum
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Location | Garfield, Utah, United States |
Coordinates | 37°54′39″N 111°25′24″W / 37.91083°N 111.42333°W |
Area | 6 acres (2.4 ha)[1] |
Elevation | 6,700 ft (2,000 m)[2] |
Established | 1960[1] |
Named for | the Anasazi people |
Visitors | 20711 (in 2011)[3] |
Governing body | Utah State Parks |
Anasazi State Park Museum is a state park and museum in southern Utah, United States, featuring the ruins of an ancient Anasazi village referred to as the Coombs Village Site.
Park facilities
Established as a Utah state park in 1960, the 6-acre (2.4 ha) Anasazi State Park Museum is open year-round, and features a visitor center, a museum with examples of Anasazi pottery and other artifacts, a museum store, an auditorium, and picnic areas. There is no camping. It is located in Boulder, Utah, at the edge of 11,000-foot-tall (3,400 m) Boulder Mountain.[4]
The park is focused around the reconstructed ruins of an ancient Anasazi village, referred to as the Coombs Village Site, which is located directly behind the museum. There is a self-guided trail visitors can take through the village with interpretive signs explaining the various features of the village and the culture of the people who once lived there.
Archaeological Coombs Site
The Coombs Site is the site of one of the largest Anasazi communities known to have existed west of the
The village is largely
Evidence, such as singed structural building supports, suggests that the town was abandoned after a village-wide fire. There was also a serious drought occurring in the region during that time that may have also been a factor.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Anasazi State Park Museum Resource Management Plan" (PDF). Utah Division of State Parks and Recreation, Planning Section. March 2009. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
- ^ a b "Anasazi State Park Museum: About the Park". Utah State Parks. Archived from the original on March 16, 2011. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
- ^ "Utah State Park 2011 Visitation" (PDF). Utah State Parks Planning. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- ^ "Anasazi State Park Museum". Utah State Parks.
- ISBN 0-89599-038-5.