Long House, Weatherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, Fall 2009
Tour of Long House Anasazi (Ancient Ones) ruins, on the Weatheill Mesa in Mesa Verde National Park, in the fall of 2009, on a trip to the Four Corners area of southwestern Colorado with a group of friends from the Boulder County Volunteer Naturalists. Additional photos and videos of trips and hikes can be viewed at NaturesPix.com and Olfarts.org
Long House World Heritage Site - Mesa Verde, Colorado USA
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Mesa Verde National Park | Living on the edge in Colorado
Mesa Verde National Park offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans, a group of people who lived in the Four Corners region for more than 700 years.
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ABOUT MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK IN COLORADO
Mesa Verde National Park (Spanish for green tableland) was established to preserve archaeological sites built by the Ancestral Puebloans who inhabited Mesa Verde for more than 700 years (550 A.D. to 1300 A.D.). Currently Mesa Verde has over 4,700 archaeological sites including 600 cliff dwellings and the mesa top sites of pithouses, pueblos, masonry towers, and farming structure, with many more yet to be discovered. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved ruins in the United States. For the first six centuries, they primarily lived on the mesa tops. It was not until the final 75 to 100 years that they constructed and lived in the cliff dwellings for which Mesa Verde is best known.
Mesa Verde National Park offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans, a group of people living in the Four Corners region who chose Mesa Verde for their home. For more than 700 years they and their descendants lived and flourished in this region, eventually building elaborate stone communities in the sheltered alcoves of the canyon walls. Then, in the late A.D. 1200s, in the span of a generation or two, they left their homes and moved away.
Five of the most impressive cliff dwelling sites include:
• Balcony House – is reachable by climbing a 32-foot ladder and crawling through a short tunnel.
• Cliff Palace – has more than 150 rooms occupying a deep alcove beneath a canyon rim.
• Long House - was excavated between 1959 and 1961 as part of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project.
• Spruce Tree House - is the best preserved cliff dwelling in all of Mesa Verde National Park.
• Step House - shows evidence of two occupations taking place in one location.
Cliff dwelling tours vary from independent self-guided tours to ranger-led walking tours. Comprehensive, interpretive, half-day guided bus tours feature a variety of sites, including Cliff Palace.
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Balcony House Ancient Pueblan (Anasazi) ruins, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado Fall 2009
Tour of Balcony House Ancient Pueblan (Anasazi) ruins, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, climbing up and down ladders with friends from the Boulder County Voluteer Naturalists in the fall of 2009. Additional photos and videos of trips and hikes can be viewed at NaturesPix.com and Olfarts.org
Mesa Verde Cliff Dwelling Tour
Take a guided tour through Mesa Verde National Park's cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived here from AD 600 to 1300.
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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.
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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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The Mystery of the Ancient Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA | Ancient Architects
Not many people will have heard of this amazing site in Colorado USA, a site that is the largest cliff dwelling in North America and known as Cliff Palace.
Cliff Palace was built by a people known as the Ancestral Pueblans, also known as the Anasazi, which means the ancient ones. They were native to the Four Corners region of the United States, where the states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona neatly intersect.
It is estimated that around 100 to 125 people lived here between 1200 and 1300 AD and they accessed the site with the aid of retractable wooden ladders. It has 150 rooms, constructed out of natural sandstone, with the addition of wooden beams and mortar.
Cliff Palace is a truly incredible site displaying unique architecture and murals from the Ancestral Puebloan culture and although we do know a great deal about the people that lived here, there is one mystery about the site: why was it abandoned around 1300 AD? Watch this video to learn more and please like and subscribe to the channel.
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Balcony House - Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, United States
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Today we step foot in one of our most anticipated National Parks while RV Living: Mesa Verde National Park. With an awesome combination of history and mystery, Mesa Verde is a must!
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Balcony House has 45 rooms and 2 kivas. Today, visitor enters by climbing a 32-foot ladder and exit by a crawling through a small tunnel. It was officially excavated by Jesse Nusbaum, one of the first Superintendents of Mesa Verde National Park, in 1910.
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Perched on the cliffsides of the Mesa Verde Plateau, exists the remnants of prehistoric Pueblo settlements.
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Mesa Verde National Park Cliff Dwellings: The Beauty, The History, The Significance
- Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It is best known for several spectacular cliff dwellings including Cliff Palace, which is thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America, as well as many others such as Balcony House, the Spruce Tree House, Long House and more.
More than 4000 pre-Columbian archaeological sites, exist within the border of Mesa Verde National Park. But don't let the multitude of possibilities overwhelm you. With proper planing and a little foreknowledge, your visit to Mesa Verde can be a relaxing and highly entertaining experience. NationalParkReservations.com can provide you with all the assistance and education that you need, in order to plan the perfect Mesa Verde vacation. Learn more by visiting
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Ancient Pueblan (Anasazi) ruins on Weatherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado Fall 2009
A visit to Ancient Pueblan (Anasazi) ruins on Weatherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, as we walked on top of the mesa with friends from the Boulder County Volunteer Naturalists in the fall of 2009. Additional photos and videos of trips and hikes can be viewed at NaturesPix.com and Olfarts.org
Spruce Treehouse at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado
Located in the Mesa Verde National Park, the Spruce Treehouse is the third largest cliff dwelling in the park, and the most accessible--however some will find the steep decent/accent via a paved path to be a bit of a challenge. See pictures and read more at:
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▶︎ 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.
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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.
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Mesa Verde National Park is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. The park protects some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in the United States.
Established by Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, the park occupies 52,485 acres (21,240 ha) near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. With more than 5,000 sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States.
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. 7500 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 1000 BCE, 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 using 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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Cliff Palace
This multi-storied ruin, the best-known cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde, is located in the largest alcove in the center of the Great Mesa. It was south- and southwest-facing, providing greater warmth from the sun in the winter. Dating back more than 700 years, the dwelling is constructed of sandstone, wooden beams, and mortar. Many of the rooms were brightly painted. Cliff Palace was home to approximately 125 people, but was likely an important part of a larger community of sixty nearby pueblos, which housed a combined six hundred or more people. With 23 kivas and 150 rooms, Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park.
Long House
Located on the Wetherill Mesa, Long House is the second-largest Mesa Verdean village; approximately 150 people lived there. The location was excavated from 1959 through 1961, as part of the Wetherhill Mesa Archaeological Project. Long House was built c. 1200; it was occupied until 1280. The cliff dwelling features 150 rooms, a kiva, a tower, and a central plaza. Its rooms are not clustered like typical cliff dwellings. Stones were used without shaping for fit and stability. Two overhead ledges contain storage space for grain. One ledge seems to include an overlook with small holes in the wall to see the rest of the village below. A spring is accessible within several hundred feet, and seeps are located in the rear of the village.
Balcony House
Balcony House is set on a high ledge facing east. Its 45 rooms and 2 kivas would have been cold during the winter. Visitors enter by climbing a 32-foot ladder and a crawling through a 12-foot tunnel. The exit, a series of toe-holds in a cleft of the cliff, was believed to be the only entry and exit route for the cliff dwellers, which made the small village easy to defend and secure. One log was dated at 1278, so it was likely built not long before the Mesa Verde people migrated out of the area. It was officially excavated in 1910 by Jesse L. Nusbaum, who was the first National Park Service Archeologist and one of the first Superintendents of Mesa Verde National Park.
Visitors can enter all these three dwellings through ranger-guided tours.