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. Today, visitors can join a park ...

At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried ... the excited cowboys explored the honeycombed network of rooms that they named Cliff Palace. Inside, they found stone tools, pottery ...

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

The largest cliff dwelling site in Weatherill Mesa, Long House, nearly rivals Cliff Palace in size and scale. At its peak, it contained nearly 150 rooms, 21 kivas, and storage areas and housed ...

Tickets do vary in price. Cliff Palace and Balcony House are $8 per person. Square Tower House is $25. Your first stop once ...

natural resource manager at Mesa Verde. “The question is, how much intervention should we do?” The next day, under a partly cloudy sky, Mealey and Beitner tied ropes around trees above Cliff Palace, a ...

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 ...