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 ...

In 1276 a 23-year drought began. The Ancestral Puebloans abandoned the site by 1300. Cowboys found the cliff dwellings in the 1880s and subsequent explorers plundered them—until much of the mesa ...

It is home to over 600 cliff dwellings, built by the Ancestral Puebloans who lived here from AD 600 to 1300. These architectural marvels were constructed within caves and under rock overhangs ...