page_title: Montezuma County, Colorado
section_title: National protected areas
hierarchical_section_title: Montezuma County, Colorado / Geography / National protected areas
context_page_description: Montezuma County is the southwesternmost of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 25,535. The county seat is Cortez.
  Mesa Verde National Park, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Yucca House National Monument, and Hovenweep National Monument preserve hundreds of ancient Amerindian structures, including the famous cliff-dwellings, found in the county. Montezuma County is also home to most of the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation, home of the Weeminuche Band of the Ute Nation, known as the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, with its headquarters at Towaoc.
context_section_description: Calico National Recreation Trail
  Canyons of the Ancients National Monument (part)
  Highline Loop National Recreation Trail
  Hovenweep National Monument (part)
  Lowry Ruin National Historic Landmark, now part of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
  Mesa Verde National Park
  Mesa Verde Wilderness
  Old Spanish National Historic Trail
  Petroglyph Point National Recreation Trail
  San Juan National Forest
  Yucca House National Monument
caption: Montezuma County includes the Colorado section of the Four Corners Monument.
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