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

Luminarias light Spruce Tree House, an ancient dwelling of the Anasazi people and the third largest cliff dwelling in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. From Cortez, take US 160 east for eight ...

The National Park Service opened a lottery for extended self-guided rafting trips along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon ...

In 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran and geology professor named John Wesley Powell led an expedition to chart the wild Colorado ... a bill creating Grand Canyon National Park.

In 1889, while searching for stray cattle in southwestern Colorado, rancher Richard ... they asked the government to make Mesa Verde a national park. Their request was denied.

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 ...

Established on June 29, 1906, the 52,074-acre (21,074-hectare) park is located some 34 miles (55 kilometers) west of the city of Durango in southwestern Colorado.

Go back in time at Mesa Verde National Park. The park protects nearly 5,000 archaeological sites, preserving the heritage of the ancestral Pueblo people. The Pueblo settled in the region about ...