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

Some 40 pueblos and cliff dwellings are visible from park roads and overlooks; some of these are open to the public. Beginning about A.D. 750, the ancestral Puebloans grouped their mesa-top ...

Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado preserves the remarkable legacy of the Ancestral Pueblo people who thrived here for centuries. Known for its stunning cliff dwellings like Cliff Palace and Balcony ...

While Mesa Verde is undoubtedly the most iconic example of Native American ruins in Colorado, the Painted Hand Pueblo is ...

When I stepped onto the trail at Bandelier National Monument, I couldn’t help but envision the Ancestral Pueblo people walking along a similar path. I’d seen pictures of cliff dwellings before ...

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings ... There are also imposing cliff dwellings, built of stone and comprising more than 100 rooms.

At Bears Ears National Monument, a crew of young men from the Pueblo of Zuni is caring for the cliff dwellings their ancestors built 800 years ago. “Uh-oh, I shouldn’t have looked down,” said Darian ...

Further exploration led to the discovery of the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ever found, built by the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians nearly 1,000 years earlier. At first it seemed ...

The Pueblo settled in the region about 1,400 years ago and built cliff dwellings using sandstone and wooden beams. Mesa Verde is home to the Cliff Palace. It’s the largest such dwelling in North ...