Soar Over the Elaborate Cliffside Villages of the Pueblo People

The sites, from mesa-top pithouses and multistoried dwellings to cliffside villages, document the changes in the lives of a ...

2 cliff dwellings closed to visitors in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado due to a wildfire

A new Colorado wildfire in Mesa Verde National Park is forcing closures of a few areas.

Lightning-sparked wildfire closes part of Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park

Lightning sparked a new fire in Mesa Verde National Park on Monday evening, shutting down part of the park, according to the National Park Service. As of Tuesday morning, the Wetherill Mesa area was ...
Colorado Public Radio

Visitors to Southwest Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park can now hear from its direct descendants

Mesa Verde is one of Southwestern Colorado’s biggest attractions. About half a million people come from around the world every year to learn more about a community of ancestral Native Americans who ...
BBC

Mesa Verde’s surprising story

The culture that once thrived at Mesa Verde National Park was rich, complex and far-reaching – and it didn’t mysteriously disappear. Mesa Verde – est 1906 Colorado Ernie Atencio, anthropologist Read ...
Science Daily

Ancient DNA used to track Mesa Verde exodus in 13th century

Ancient DNA used to track the mass exodus of Ancestral Pueblo people from Colorado's Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century indicates many wound up in the Northern Rio Grande area north of Santa ...