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

Located in Southwest Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park is one of the most ... Tickets are released two weeks prior to the tour date at 8 am Mountain Time. For some of the most popular, you ...

At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above Montezuma Valley. Remarkably preserved, the cliff dwellings cluster in ...

As climate change shapes the Southwest, Mesa Verde National Park strives to protect both ancient forests and vulnerable cliff dwellings. Hooked onto a rope slung around a tree, National Park Service ...

Located between the Salt River and Usery Mountains in Mesa, the system has several access ... makes for a moderate-rated hike with outstanding mountain vistas and peeks at the leafy corridor ...

At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered in the Four Corners area where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet. These sites had been ...

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 ...