Original Photographs - Ruins of Mesa Verde
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To celebrate the centennial year of 2006, illumination of Cliff Palace with lanterns and luminaria occurred one night in December.
To celebrate the centennial year of 2006, illumination of Cliff Palace with lanterns and luminaria occurred one night in December.
To celebrate the centennial year of 2006, illumination of Cliff Palace with lanterns and luminaria occurred one night in December.
Cliff Palace
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Cliff Palace
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Cliff Palace
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The intact balcony on the north end of the cliff dwelling gives this dwelling its name. Click to enlarge Balcony House
The largest cliff dwelling in the Soda Canyon community of Mesa Verde, Balcony House has 44 rooms and two kivas. Click to enlarge Balcony House 3.
Visitors enter Balcony House using a 32-foot ladder on the north end of the ruin and exit by crawling through the tunnel and climbing another ladder and steps chiseled into the rock cliff. Click to enlarge Climbing the Ladder into Balcony House.
Balcony House
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Balcony House
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Climbing the Ladder into Balcony House
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The largest cliff dwelling on Mesa Verde, Cliff Palace has 220 rooms and 23 kivas. Click to enlarge Cliff Palace
After occupying the mesa top for 800 years and the cliff dwellings for less than 100 years, the Anasazi abandoned Mesa Verde shortly before 1300. Click to enlarge Cliff Palace
The largest cliff dwelling on Mesa Verde, Cliff Palace has 220 rooms and 23 kivas. Click to enlarge Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park
Cliff Palace
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Cliff Palace
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Cliff Palace
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The largest cliff dwelling on Mesa Verde, Cliff Palace has 220 rooms and 23 kivas. Click to enlarge Cliff Palace.
The second largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park, Long House lies on the west side of Wetherill Mesa in a finger canyon that joins Rock Canyon. This ruin contains 150 rooms and 21 kivas including a large, square great kiva. Click to enlarge Long House
Named for the large quantity of pottery - mostly mugs - found there, Mug House is in excellent condition. Mug House lies on the west side of Wetherill Mesa in Rock Canyon. Click to enlarge Mug House
Cliff Palace
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Long House
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Mug House
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The third largest cliff dwelling on Mesa Verde, Spruce Tree House contains 114 rooms and 8 kivas. Click to enlarge Spruce Tree House
The roofs of several restored kivas provide the courtyard at Spruce Tree House. Click to enlarge Spruce Tree House.
After occupying the mesa top for 800 years and the cliff dwellings for less than 100 years, the Anasazi abandoned Mesa Verde shortly before 1300. Click to enlarge Spruce Tree House
Spruce Tree House
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Spruce Tree House
Luminaria
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Spruce Tree House
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The third largest cliff dwelling on Mesa Verde, Spruce Tree House contains 114 rooms and 8 kivas. Click to enlarge Spruce Tree House.
The roofs of several restored kivas provide the courtyard at Spruce Tree House. Click to enlarge Spruce Tree House.
All that remains of a four-story room block is four stacked rooms that resemble a tower. The openings are actually doors and access was probably from the rooftop of a three story building in front of the tower. Click to enlarge Square Tower House
Spruce Tree House
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Spruce Tree House
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Square Tower House
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The National Park opened in 1906 and is dedicated to the preservation of the Ancestral Puebloan culture. While continually being revised, the current estimate is that over 5000 archaeological sites are within the park boundaries. Click to enlarge 4 views of Mesa Verde.
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Mesa Verde National Park
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