re: Heading to Durango/Pagosa Springs in March

i can't emphasize no to the 4 corners enough.
i just went out there at the end of May and everyone said don't go there, but my kid wanted to and we were going to Mesa Verde up from Albuquerque so it wasn't that far out of the way for us.
It was something stupid like $30 for us to get in. There's Indians selling shite tourist trinkets for way too much all around it. My boys got a slingshot and some stupid hatchet that i told them both to not get, as well as my wife, and sure enough they were broken before the end of the day. My wife is big into jewelry and she said all the jewelry they had was the kind of crap you'd find in the mall. Nothing they had was handmade, which is what you would expect from this group of people.
It's in the middle of nowhere. It's 45 minutes from Cortez, and there is literally nothing between Cortez and the 4 Corners. No gas, no food, nothing. You have to wait in a line to take a picture of the monument marker. There's just nothing really to do there except say you went there once, and then you can come back and tell people to not waste their time and go there.