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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The park contains over 5,000 sites, including over 600 cliff dwellings. Mesa Verde is home to the largest cliff dwelling in North America — the Cliff Palace, which dates to the 12th century. Mesa ...

Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado ... and ever since visitors have flocked to the park to view its most famous landmark, Cliff Palace. Aside from the cliff dwellings and ruins ...

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 ...