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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Within a radius of ten miles are to be found the famous cliff dwellings, the beautiful San Francisco peaks, the ancient cave dwellings, and the well-known bottomless pits. Here the every whim of ...

I’ll take that any summer day I can get it. But instead of looking at a blank wall, visitors are treated to a remarkably preserved ancient stone village almost 800 years old, tucked away ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A week-long camping trip turned frightening when "heavy rains and rising rivers" surrounded the scouts' campsite near Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, according to police Abigail Adams is a ...