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 ...

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

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, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...