While landscapes and wildlife usually come to mind when thinking about units of the National Park System, there are national ...

Visitors to Colorado’s national parks this summer could find dirty bathrooms and closures at visitor centers and campgrounds ...

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 ...

Go on an ancient adventure Mesa Verde National Monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 as the first national park to “preserve the works of man.” It’s home to Cliff ...

As climate change shapes the Southwest, Mesa Verde National Park strives to protect both ancient forests and vulnerable cliff dwellings. Hooked onto a rope slung around a tree, National Park Service ...

Several presidents have their names attached to some of Colorado's greatest natural treasures. After all, it takes a ...

Located between the Salt River and Usery Mountains in Mesa, the system has several access ... makes for a moderate-rated hike with outstanding mountain vistas and peeks at the leafy corridor ...

At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered in the Four Corners area where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet. These sites had been ...