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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The largest cliff dwelling site in Weatherill Mesa, Long House, nearly rivals Cliff Palace in size and scale. At its peak, it contained nearly 150 rooms, 21 kivas, and storage areas and housed ...

These ancient cliff dwellings were once the home of the Sinagua people of the Ancestral Puebloans and are now among the largest cave dwellings in the area. The pictographs that cover the walls of ...

Mesa Verde is a great place to hike and enjoy nature, but the park’s allure is the nearly thousand-year-old cliff dwellings that make up the United States’ largest archaeological preserve.

Further exploration led to the discovery of the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ever found, built by the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians nearly 1,000 years earlier. At first it seemed ...