Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places ... by climbing steep ladders or crawling through tunnels, you can tour several of the sites, including the largest cliff dwelling ...

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m.

Guided tours can lead visitors on paths carved by Ancestral Puebloans into immaculately preserved cliff dwellings. Home to ancient ruins of a lost civilization of the Pueblo people, Mesa Verde ...

At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise ... open mid-April to mid-October, to purchase tour tickets. Then go to the Chapin Mesa ...

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 ... park ranger for a guided tour of the structure.

The true highlight of Mesa Verde National Park are the cliff dwelling tours. Tickets are inexpensive but required to tour these dwellings. Why? Quite simply, to protect the dwellings. Plus ...

In Mesa Verde, the first national park established to protect ... Rangers also often incorporate the topic into their tours of the cliff dwellings: Drought caused by climate change, archaeologists ...

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 ...