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.
Knives Edge Mesa Verde National Park
This is a video of the spot called Knife's Edge in Mesa Verde National Park. It's a historic spot where the first road to haul Tourist into the park was located. It's now a hiking path.
Video of Morefield - Mesa Verde National Park, CO from SwitchbackKids .
Our montage video of our experience at Mesa Verde National Park.
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SwitchbackKids .'s Review on The Dyrt:
▶︎ Comfort, Quiet, and Quick Access to Mesa Verde Trails & Landmarks
Mesa Verde National Park was our second stop on our year-long trip to visit all 59 national parks. We were pleasantly surprised with the comfort, quiet and access to great hiking trails that Morefield Campground provided. According to the NPS website, the campground rarely fills, and when we visited in August 2015, it was nearly empty. We chose a site in the tents-only loop to ensure a quiet environment. The sites are scenic and spread out, so we had no trouble with solitude. From the campground, it is easy to access some of the best hikes in the park: we loved 7.8-mile Prater Ridge Trail and 2-mile Point Lookout Trail, both accessed from the Morefield trailhead. Yes, you should definitely spend time visiting the cliff dwellings (we liked the Long House hike & bike tour on less-frequented Wetherill Mesa and the Balcony House tour on Chapin Mesa in particular!) but hiking is an underrated way to experience this park. The views at Morefield itself are not necessarily jaw-dropping, and it certainly doesn’t feel too rustic (free showers, coin laundry, and a general store) but it is a comfortable, convenient, and quiet campground that serves as a perfect launching-off point for exploring beautiful and historic Mesa Verde.
You can read much more about our four days in the park on our blog: Switchback Kids (Mesa Verde) (
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Hiking on the Petroglyph trail is Mesa Verde National Park
Very diverse trail, a must do in Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde, Petroglyph Trail, United States 2
Mesa Verde, Petroglyph Trail, Colorado, USA 1999
Another video Mesa Verde, part 1
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.
Mesa Verde Petroglyph Trail
Mesa Verde National Park. Colorado 1999
Mesa Verde national park, Colorado. Petroglyph trail, United States (1999), indian buldings, Cliff palace, South-West Parks
Mesa Verde national park Colorado
Driving Mesa Verde National Park
Part 1 of 2 - Taken on March 21, 2012
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA
Vacation Day 8 | Hiking Petroglyph Trail in Mesa Verde
We stopped for a hike at Mesa Verde on the way to Santa Fe, NM
Mesa Verde National Park | 700 Year Tour
The 700 Years tour provides you with an overall historical view of the Ancestral Puebloans architectural, horticultural, cultural, and religious dimensions of their lives in the Southwest. You will be taken through a chronological journey starting with the earliest recorded Pithouse villages (600 A.D.) in history to the classic Pueblo era of cliff dwellings dated from the 13th century. Cliff Palace, the largest of cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park, is viewed as one of the top ten places to visit in a lifetime. Learn more, and book your Mesa Verde National Park tour at
Petroglyph Point Trail Mesa Verde
Petroglyph Point Trail and what we hiked to. The trailhead is near Chapin Mesa. Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde Petroglyph Point
Slideshow of the Petroglyph Point trail in Mesa Verde National Park. The trail traverses around the cliffs of the mountain at the same level as the cliff dwellings, passing right through several formaly inhabited areas, to a panel of rock art. At that point the trail climbs up to the top of the mesa and passes above the same dwellings as it makes its way back to the Spruce Tree House parking area.
Mesa Verde: Petroglyph Trail Hike 2008.AVI
Mesa Verde: Petroglyph Hike 2008. The hike is 3 miles round trip, and this is the ancient carving you see at the end. Camera did not have any sound.
Mesa Verde Hike
Mesa Verde National Park
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, Spruce Tree Terrace, Colorado, United States
Mesa Verde, Spruce Tree Terrace, Colorado, United States 1999
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.
Mesa Verde Colorado
Mesa Verde Spruce Canyon Loop
Slideshow of the Spruce Canyon Loop trail in Mesa Verde National Park.
Hiking in Mesa Verde National Park on May 6th, 2016
Our Stay at Sundance Bear Lodge near Mesa Verde National Park
Did a road trip in April 2012 to Mesa Verde National Park. We stayed at the Sundance Bear Lodge, in Mancos, Colorado. It was a wonderful stay, our hosts, Sue and Bob could not have been nicer.
Mesa Verde Square Tower House Overlook
September 10, 2013
This site was being restored while I was there so it was interesting to see that. Look at how huge the canyon is! This whole Mesa Top area is full of archeological sites. Everywhere you look along that shale shelf in the cliffs, there were ruins. This was an amazing trip.