At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above Montezuma Valley. Remarkably preserved, the cliff dwellings cluster in ...

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places, and looters took away most of the pottery and baskets a century ago. But as you explore the southwestern Colorado national park ...

Venturing to the park is worth the detour, however, as it's home to ancient cliff dwellings ... way to enter the park is through Chinle on its western border, a small town with less than 4,000 ...