Mesa Verde’s Cliff Palace offers a glimpse into a lost world of ancient architecture and culture. Explore the secrets hidden within this cliffside fortress.

The iconic Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park will close for the season on Sept. 14 so that crews can work to repair parts of the 700-year-old structure.

MONTEZUMA COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- There is a big push to save one of Colorado's iconic sites the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde. The National Park Service says the structures are at risk of crumbling ...

Nearly 32 million people have visited Mesa Verde National Park since it was created by presidential proclamation in 1908. And for more than 100 years nearly every one of those visitors has flocked ...

MESA VERDE, Colo. (CBS4)- The Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde was illuminated for the holidays in what is a long-standing tradition at the park. The cliff dwellings were lit with lanterns while ...

Mesa Verde National Park will restart its hallmark cliff dwelling tours that were suspended in 2020 because of the pandemic. Tours will resume to the popular Cliff Palace and Long House sites.

A green-tailed towhee is down in the canyon, hidden amid the green leafy oaks, singing his heart as all male towhees do. I am in Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park, gazing at the spectacle of ...

Mesa Verde is home to the Cliff Palace. It’s the largest such dwelling in North America. The Cliff Palace has 150 rooms and was once home to more than 100 people.

Another view of the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde. (Image credit: National Park Service) Growth and first collapse. This way of life appears to have been quite successful, at least for a time.