Mainstream vs. hard-to-find

Last month for our fam­ily vaca­tion, we camped in Mesa Verde National Park. (We tried to go eight or nine years ago but couldn’t, due to a mas­sive for­est fire.)

See­ing the famous cliff dwellings was indeed inter­est­ing. A fas­ci­nat­ing fact the park ranger told us is that only about 5% of the cliff dwelling sites in the area are vis­ited by tourists. The rest are sim­ply to hard to find or to access.

Obvi­ously the most pic­turesque or grand scale sites like this one are hit by the aver­age vis­i­tor. But I won­dered what visual trea­sures lay just out of reach!