Dwellings were taken from their original site in Southwest Colorado Just outside of Colorado Springs, the Manitou Cliff Dwellings have been welcoming tourists for over 100 years. In some ways, they ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ — Located just east of Flagstaff, Walnut Canyon National Monument offers visitors a rare look into cliff dwellings built more than 800 years ago by the Sinagua people, whose name means ...

Nestled within the rugged cliffs, Cliff Palace was an extensive ancestral Pueblo community lost to time for many centuries.

MONTEZUMA COUNTY • Why did the people leave? This was the question of tourists standing high on a platform overlooking round and square towers and circular gathering places built eight centuries ago ...

One look at the iconic cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, and it’s easy to imagine the lives that once bustled within them. In a free audio tour visitors can download, park ...

Pompeii, Machu Picchu, and Petra are alluring, ghostly places, cities that rose through mankind’s endeavor and ingenuity before being abandoned to the omnipotent hands of nature. Nestled on a ...

“I studied these peoples, the ancestral Puebloans,” the former Fairfax resident said of her decision to work in southwest Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park. Besides this $3-per-person tour, the park ...

Carved into the sandstone cliffs of the American Southwest are remnants of ancient civilizations that spark the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of tourists each year. These cliff dwellings are ...

Mesa Verde National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an International Dark Sky Park. Mesa Verde National Park is home to some of the oldest human dwellings in North America. The structures ...

Tourists encircle a kiva while touring the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park. The Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park and in the United States. Jerilee ...