When the tourists leave the cliff houses at Mesa Verde National Park, wildlife will wander in for a photo shoot. Cameras monitor the condition of ancient dwellings and watch for looting and ...

Mesa Verde National Park is a cultural marvel amid a majestic Southwest landscape. Located in southern Colorado near the Four Corners region, it’s the largest archaeological preserve in the country, ...

Mesa Verde National Park manages to stay wild despite the thousands of visitors each year. Here are some of the species there ...

There's no time to be nervous. The kids charge ahead up the 32-foot ladder, squeezing through a narrow, 12-foot tunnel, walking in toeholds carved into dusty sandstone. Imagine if you could only get ...

"If you have a fear of heights and tight spaces, this tour's not for you," said Park Ranger Paula Wolfe, preparing 25 adults and children for an hour climb up and down cliffside ladders, squeezing ...

MONTEZUMA COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- It's one of the crown jewels of the National Parks system. A newly discovered crack could have wide ranging impacts on the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park.

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK — The corncob impression in the sandstone floor looked just like the one left in the butter at our family dinner the night before. I looked up from my study of its rows of ...

Mesa Verde National Park’s visitor facilities, museum, loop roads and several hiking trails reopened after U.S. agencies resumed operations last week and furloughed employees returned to work. A park ...

Mesa Verde National Park, which has been a pretty dark place since the ancient Pueblo people left their cliff dwellings in the 13th century, is bidding to be designated an International Dark Sky Park ...

Reporting from Durango, Colo. — It’s a 90-minute drive from Durango, Colo., to Mesa Verde National Park. Do it — especially if it’s summer, when you’ll have a chance to climb among the park’s cliff ...

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK – We climbed ladders, crawled through rock tunnels and put on our imaginary plant-fiber sandals. Take a ranger-guided tour of Mesa Verde's immaculate Cliff Palace and Balcony ...

“I studied these peoples, the ancestral Puebloans,” the former Fairfax resident said of her decision to work in southwest Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park. Besides this $3-per-person tour, the park ...