Guided tours can lead visitors on paths carved by Ancestral Puebloans into immaculately preserved cliff dwellings. Home to ancient ruins of a lost civilization of the Pueblo people, Mesa Verde ...

At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise ... open mid-April to mid-October, to purchase tour tickets. Then go to the Chapin Mesa ...

Explore beautifully preserved Pueblo ruins, embark on some easy hikes with views that never end, and pitch your tent under ...

Mesa Verde is home to the Cliff Palace. It’s the largest such ... Today, visitors can join a park ranger for a guided tour of the structure. —Rebecca Mordechai ...

In Mesa Verde, the first national park established to protect ... Rangers also often incorporate the topic into their tours of the cliff dwellings: Drought caused by climate change, archaeologists ...

Virginia McClurg, a well-known writer, poet, and lecturer, took up the cause of protecting Mesa Verde's treasures. She formed the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, whose members were all women ...

Some of the most well-known and well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in existence are protected within Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. The park contains over 5,000 ...