At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above Montezuma ... across the canyon. Mesa Verde National Park is also a UNESCO ...

Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado protects and ... The trail traverses the side of Spruce Canyon and descends narrow rock staircases to reach a large petroglyph panel.

Mesa Verde National ... cautious on the park’s winding roads. For many visitors, the highlight of Mesa Verde is the Cliff Palace Loop Road. This 6-mile drive offers sweeping canyon views and ...

We could see for miles as we drove through the Arizona desert with scattered small green bushes, red rock formations and ...

Hooked onto a rope slung around a tree, National Park Service rock climber Dave Mealey walked backward off a cliff above Spruce Tree House, one of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings ...

Seeking greater protection of the ruins, they asked the government to make Mesa Verde a national park. Their request was denied. News of the Wetherills' discoveries at Mesa Verde attracted an ...

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 ...

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 ...