Location: Colorado Established: June 29, 1906 Size: 52,074 acres At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above Montezuma ...

Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado protects and preserves the cultural heritage of 26 tribes of Ancestral Pueblo people. Mesa Verde National Park’s history begins long before its ...

Peabody believed that only as a national park could Mesa Verde be properly saved for future generations. On June 29, 1906, President Roosevelt signed the law creating Mesa Verde National Park.

Mesa Verde is home to the largest cliff dwelling in North America — the Cliff Palace, which dates to the 12th century. Mesa Verde was the first national park to focus on protecting both cultural and ...

At Mesa Verde National Park, wild horses are referred to as “trespass livestock.” They have trampled archaeological sites, damaged ice-making machines trying to get to water, and broken ...

National Park staff have delayed Mesa Verde's re-opening one week due to repairs to fix damage caused while federal employees were absent. Park employees returned to work Monday after 35 days away ...

Wild horse deaths at Mesa Verde highlight problem at national park (TR) wildHorses19c Wild horses in the Sand Wash herd management area located 45 miles west of Craig, Colorado, in the Sand Wash ...

The land was transferred to the National Parks Service on July 25. Salazar, D-Colo., and Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., sponsored the Mesa Verde National Park Boundary Act that was approved in December.

Go back in time at Mesa Verde National Park. The park protects nearly 5,000 archaeological sites, preserving the heritage of the ancestral Pueblo people. The Pueblo settled in the region about ...