Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado protects and preserves the cultural heritage of 26 tribes of Ancestral ...

Archaeologists have located some 600 cliff dwellings in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. 1:30. ... Airports: Cortez and Durango. When to Go. Year-round.

DURANGO, Colorado — If ever there was a tourist destination built for social ... the San Juan Byway is a 236-mile loop that runs from Durango to Telluride to Mesa Verde National Park and back ...

It's a 90-minute drive from Durango, Colo., to Mesa Verde National Park. ... After all, you probably won’t be in this thinly populated western Colorado neighborhood again soon.

Gustaf Nordenskiöld, a Swedish researcher, arrived in Southwest Colorado in 1891 and conducted the first scientific study of what is now Mesa Verde National Park. However, he left behind a ...

July 15, 2019 / 4:53 PM MDT / CBS Colorado DURANGO, Colo. (CBS4) - Tourists are returning after one of the worst fires in Colorado history last year. The 416 Fire burned 54,000 acres in 2018.

When his pack animals, loaded down with 600 items including a mummified corpse, reached the Durango railway station, he was accused of looting Mesa Verde and arrested.

The Four Corners region of southwest Colorado, where Mesa Verde is located, ... In Denver, for example, the sun will be 78.7% obscured, whereas in Durango and Telluride it will be close to 89%.