One look at the iconic cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, and it’s easy to imagine the lives that once bustled within them. In a free audio tour visitors can download ...

In December 1888, Colorado cowboys discovered a remarkable archaeological site at Mesa Verde, revealing a silent city of stone built by a peaceful Indian civilization centuries before Columbus.

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 ...

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK – A brilliant white ... They also trample cultural sites, knocking over walls and damaging ancient dwellings and kivas. They have crushed ancient pottery into oblivion.

For 700 years, Mesa Verde was the home of the ancestral Pueblo people, who mysteriously abandoned their cliff dwellings in the late 1200s. Park officials already are making big plans for the event ...

In contrast to the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde or the small canyon homes nearby, Hovenweep has many spectacular free-standing structures, most reachable via an easy trail from the park entrance.