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

Why the Mesa Verde people eventually left their homes may never be known. Indeed, they lived in the cliff dwellings for only about the last 75 to 100 years of their occupation of Mesa Verde.

The Mesa Top Ruin Loop houses some of the most significant sites in Mesa Verde. Here, you’ll see two of the best examples of cliff dwellings (balcony house and cliff palace) that you can explore ...

Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado preserves the remarkable legacy of the Ancestral Pueblo people who thrived here for centuries. Known for its stunning cliff dwellings like Cliff Palace and Balcony ...

Greetings from Mesa Verde National Park This is a photo of me climbing the ladder up to Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde N.P. in May 1978. From 1977 to 1982, my late husband and I lived and travelled ...

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 ...

The cowboys improvised a ladder and descended to examine the homes of a vanished people ... At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered ...

Go back in time at Mesa Verde National Park. The park protects nearly 5,000 archaeological sites, preserving the heritage of the ancestral Pueblo people. The Pueblo settled in the region about ...