Go back in time at Mesa Verde National Park ... in North America. The Cliff Palace has 150 rooms and was once home to more than 100 people. Today, visitors can join a park ranger for a guided ...

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m.

Luminarias light Spruce Tree House, an ancient dwelling of the Anasazi people and the third largest cliff dwelling in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. From Cortez, take US 160 east for eight ...

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places, and looters took away most of the pottery and baskets a century ago. But as you explore the southwestern Colorado national park ...

Hooked onto a rope slung around a tree, National Park Service rock climber Dave Mealey walked backward off a cliff above Spruce Tree House, one of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings ...

Mesa Verde is unique in the national park system, the only national park created specifically to preserve archaeological ...

Step House is located on Weatherhill Mesa. If you have ever dreamed of visiting Mesa Verde National Park, it is probably the stunning images of Cliff Palace that have fostered those dreams.

This summer, through a collaboration between the CU Museum of Natural History and Mesa Verde National Park, visitors to the park can engage with hands-on education activities that will highlight the ...

Century when Spruce Tree House was built ... home to the largest cliff dwelling in North America — the Cliff Palace, which dates to the 12th century. Mesa Verde was the first national park to focus on ...

Further exploration led to the discovery of the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ever ... they asked the government to make Mesa Verde a national park. Their request was denied.