Wetherill Cemetery Trail

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Features Birding · Historical Significance · Views · Wildlife

Primitive restrooms are located 0.25 miles beyond the gate (across the trail from Kin Klesto). The Pueblo del Arroyo Trail begins across the parking area.

The trail begins at the northern end of the main park road (same parking area, but different trailhead, as Pueblo del Arroyo and the Pueblo Alto Loop). Hike 0.1 miles through the desert scrub to the cemetery, which holds the remains of Richard Wetherill (credited with the discovery of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde), his wife Marietta, and a few others. Wetherill homesteaded the area around Pueblo Bonito and ran a trading post on the site for a number of years.

Return to the parking area for a 0.1-mile out & back hike, or turn right to take the path 0.25 miles to Pueblo Bonito.