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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mesa is on the western side of Mesa Verde National Park, about 30 minutes from the road fork (near Far View Terrace Gift ...

Visitors tour the dwellings at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park on July 12, 2017. (Photo by Joe Amon/The Denver Post) Finding Colorado’s state bird was easier than expected Crews conquer ...

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 many visitors, the highlight of Mesa Verde is the Cliff Palace Loop Road. This 6-mile drive offers sweeping canyon views ...

It involves all kinds of work, from indepth study of the fabled cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde to sweeping porches. For the eighth straight year, a tribe of Boulder schoolchildren contributed its ...

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.