Cortez

Official Travel Stamp Vinyl Sticker

Planning a trip? Check out the Cortez website.

Founded on Christmas Day in 1886 for workers building an irrigation system on the Dolores River, this high-desert town grew because of water rather than mining or railroads. Known as the gateway to the Four Corners, 
it sits amid one of North America’s richest archaeological landscapes, with thousands of Ancestral Puebloan sites ranging from mesa-top villages to cliff dwellings. 

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