Kiva Point Trail

The Kiva Point Trail in Ute Mountain Tribal Park, the south side of Mesa Verde, in southwest Colorado is a short route just off the gravel road in the Mancos River Canyon near the entrance to the park.

Among the highlights of this trail are the several panels of rock art petroglyphs on the sandstone cliffs a short climb from the road. The interpretation of these drawings is usually a mystery though current day Pueblo People often have some insights.
Ute Mountain Tribal Park requires all visitors to be escorted by a guide and one of the benefits of this system, as opposed to the mass system at nearby Mesa Verde, is the numerous collections of pottery shards and artifacts that are on display in the areas where they were found.
The Kiva here is unexcavated and appears as a large circle with scattered rubble. This site was a fairly large village area not far from the Mancos River, a modest sized stream that flows out of the nearby LaPlata mountains.

There is an identified dancing ground near the site, along with collapsed towers and a possible three story pueblo.