At Mesa Verde ... Tree House. Trailers are not allowed past Morefield Village. Airports: Cortez and Durango. Year-round. Wetherill Mesa, Far View Visitor Center, Cliff Palace Loop, Balcony ...

The Pueblo settled in the region about 1,400 years ago and built cliff dwellings using sandstone and wooden beams. Mesa Verde is home to the Cliff Palace. It’s the largest such dwelling in North ...

Mesa Top Ruins The Mesa Top Ruin Loop houses some of the most significant sites in Mesa Verde. Here, you’ll see two of the best examples of cliff dwellings (balcony house and cliff palace) that ...

As climate change shapes the Southwest, Mesa Verde National Park strives to protect both ancient forests and vulnerable cliff dwellings. Hooked onto a rope slung around a tree, National Park Service ...

While landscapes and wildlife usually come to mind when thinking about units of the National Park System, there are national ...

Cliff Palace and Balcony House are $8 per person ... but all of the big attractions and cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde ...

This World Heritage Site preserves more than 600 cliff dwellings typical of the Ancestral Puebloan ... This is a photo of me climbing the ladder up to Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde N.P. in May 1978.

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 ...