Mesa Verde National Park · Colorado

Spruce Tree House Trail

0.4 mi of trail, end to end · about 40 ft of climbing · 150 ft of descent · 6,829 ft–6,966 ft · asphalt surface · trail class Fully Developed · hiking

Trailheads Petroglyph Point Trailhead 6,842 ft Drive there · Spruce Canyon Trailhead 6,798 ft Drive there · Spruce Tree House Trailhead 6,966 ft Drive there

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Other trails from the same trailheads

Petroglyph Trail · 2.4 mi · from Spruce Tree House Trailhead
Spruce Canyon Trail · 2.2 mi · from Spruce Canyon Trailhead
Headquarters Office/Quarters Trail System · 0.5 mi · from Spruce Tree House Trailhead
Headquarters Loop Road Corridor Walkway · 0.3 mi · from Spruce Tree House Trailhead

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About this trail's facts

The lines are the National Park Service's public trails layer, the trailheads and the waterfalls, views, peaks and historic places along them the Service's public points of interest, read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end. The write-ups are the Service's own "things to do" text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the park's own site before you go.