At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above Montezuma Valley. Remarkably preserved, the cliff dwellings cluster in ...

While landscapes and wildlife usually come to mind when thinking about units of the National Park System, there are national ...

As climate change shapes the Southwest, Mesa Verde National Park strives to protect both ancient forests and vulnerable cliff dwellings. Hooked onto a rope slung around a tree, National Park Service ...

This World Heritage Site preserves more than 600 cliff dwellings typical of the Ancestral Puebloan ... This is a photo of me climbing the ladder up to Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde N.P. in May 1978.

Mesa Verde is a great place to hike and enjoy nature, but the park’s allure is the nearly thousand-year-old cliff dwellings ...

The Mesa is on the western side of Mesa Verde National Park, about 30 minutes from the road fork (near Far View Terrace Gift Shop). It houses some of the best cliff and mesa-top dwellings in the park.

At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered in the Four Corners area where Arizona ... formed the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association ...

The Pueblo settled in the region about 1,400 years ago and built cliff dwellings using sandstone and wooden beams. Mesa Verde is home to the Cliff Palace. It’s the largest such dwelling in North ...