Mesa Verde Spruce Canyon Loop
Slideshow of the Spruce Canyon Loop trail in Mesa Verde National Park.
Mesa Verde National Park, Petroglyph Trail
Cliff dwellings and petroglyphs.
Hiking the Petroglyph Trial at Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde National Park I hike the Petroglyph Trial
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Hiking Petroglyphs Trail, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Hiking Petroglyphs Trail, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK, COLORADO
We visited beautiful Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado!
Mesa Verde Knife Edge Trail
Slideshow of the Knife Edge trail in Mesa Verde National Park. The trail once served as the parks access road and was so narrow that only one vehicle could travel the road at a time.
Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park
Ranger Paul talked about the Anasazi people and the cliff dwellings. This video was taken at Cliff Palace. This video would be great for homeschooling.
The Anasazi at Mesa Verde
An educational tour of the Anasazi ruins at Mesa Verde.
Mesa Verde National Park
A few things to see and do while visiting Mesa Verde National Park.
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Mesa Verde National Park - Four Corners Area - Desert South West, USA
Explore with us as we tour Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, Monument Valley, Arizona and Mexican Hat, Utah. Descend down into a Kiva, a ceremonial room located below the courtyard at the Spruce Tree House. See the Oak Tree House and Cliff Palace from a distance. This sequence was shot in 1999 and 2001.
First Evening at Mesa Verde....Campground
Just some shots of the BEAUTIFUL skies and colors that we got there. Of course, the camera did not do any justice to how pretty it all was.
Review: BLM land at Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde National Park - Balcony House - Cliff Palace - Cliff Dwellings - LeAw in the USA //Ep.26
We are living the American dream driving the Historic Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica but we are doing some detours to visit some places we like.
In this 26th episode, we visit Mesa Verde National Park.
Balcony House Tour in the morning and Cliff Palace Tour in the evening.
Hope you're not claustrophobic -- or afraid of heights.
Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States. The park was created in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt, to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world, or as he said, preserve the works of man. As a result, it is the first, and still only, cultural National Park set aside by the National Park System. It occupies 81.4 square miles (211 km2) near the Four Corners and features numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the Ancestral Puebloan people, sometimes called the Anasazi. There are over four thousand archaeological sites and over six hundred cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people at the site.
The Anasazi inhabited Mesa Verde between 600 to 1300, though there is evidence they left before the start of the fifteenth century. They were mainly subsistence farmers, growing crops on nearby mesas. Their primary crop was corn, the major part of their diet. Men were also hunters, which further increased their food supply. The women of the Anasazi are famous for their elegant basket weaving. Anasazi pottery is as famous as their baskets; their artifacts are highly prized. The Anasazi kept no written records.
By the year 750, the people were building mesa-top villages made of adobe. In the late 1190s, they began to build the cliff dwellings for which Mesa Verde is famous.
Mesa Verde is best known for cliff dwellings, which are structures built within caves and under outcroppings in cliffs — including Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The Spanish term Mesa Verde translates into English as green table. It is considered to contain some of the most notable and best preserved archaeological sites.
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Mesa Verde, Spruce Tree Terrace, Colorado, United States
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Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. It protects some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan archeological sites in the United States.
The park was created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. It occupies 52,485 acres (21,240 ha) near the Four Corners region, and with more than 4,000 sites and 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archeological preserve in the US. Mesa Verde (Spanish for green table) is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America.
Starting c. 7,500 BCE, Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. Later, Archaic people established semi-permanent rockshelters in and around the mesa. By 1,000, the Basketmaker culture emerged from the local Archaic population, and by 750 CE the Ancestral Puebloans had developed from the Basketmaker culture.
The Mesa Verdeans survived by utilizing a combination of hunting, gathering, and subsistence farming of crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They built the mesa's first pueblos sometime after 650, and by the end of the 12th century they began to construct the massive cliff dwellings for which the park is best known. By 1285, following a period of social and environmental instability driven by a series of severe and prolonged droughts, they abandoned the area and moved south to locations in Arizona and New Mexico, including Rio Chama, Pajarito Plateau, and Santa Fe.
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Colorado cliff dwellings, Mesa Verde National Park: A Minute Away
Hope you're not claustrophobic -- or afraid of heights. Explore the stunning Colorado cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park with Los Angeles Times Traveler Christopher Reynolds. For more of his Colorado adventures: And check out the rest of his A Minute Away series here:
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President Theodore Roosevelt on June 29, 1906, set aside Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. This land, inhabited by Ancestral Puebloans for over 700 years, included the most complete and extensive concentration of prehistoric cliff dwellings in the United States. Today, the park protects over 4,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. In fact, these sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.
The Native Americans first settled on the Colorado Plateau and farmed the mesas. Life was hard in the arid climate, boasting warm summers, cold winters, and limited rainfall. They lived in various settlements above ground until AD 1100, when they started constructing the massive cliff dwellings.
Many have thought that the Ancestral Puebloans retreated to the cliff dwellings to hide from aggressors, but archeological evidence does not support that theory. In fact, the entire region lived in harmony. The cliff dwellings do offer better protection from the elements than the mesa-top sites, which may be one reason we see so many similar dwellings across the southwest.
Between AD 1200 and 1400, there was a mass exodus from the region. To this date, we still do not know why. Perhaps the climate changed significantly, eliminating the ability to farm on the mesa. What do we know, is that their descendants live on in modern tribes residing in the Rio Grande river valley in New Mexico, the Ute in Colorado, and the Hopi in Arizona.
Each year, new dwellings are continued to be uncovered, allowing researchers to peer deeper and deeper into the past. It is this continued effort that has led to the decade old change in name from Anasazi to Ancestral Puebloan to reflect the people who lived here.
When traveling in the Southwest, there are many must-see National Parks,. This is one of them. The fact that you can still walk the grounds and experience the cliff dwellings from within, make it not only a wondrous educational opportunity, but an experiential one as well. The park is open year-round and worth spending at least three days exploring its history.
All Images take by me in 2006.
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Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado at Spruce Tree House
Visit our website! Spruce Tree House is a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park in southern Colorado.
Mesa Verde Prater Ridge
Slideshow of the Prater Ridge trail in the Mesa Verde National Park.
Mesa Verde National Park - Spruce Tree House
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Spruce Tree House is a self guided hike to the best preserved cliff dwelling. Great hike for the family. Park Rangers are on site to answer questions.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
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Mesa Verde National Park is in southwest Colorado. It is known for its well-preserved Puebloan cliff dwellings, notably the hug Cliff Palace. The Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum has exhibits on the ancient Native American culture. Mesa Top Loop Road winds past archaeological sites and overlooks, including Oak Tree House Overlook with panoramic canyon views.
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