For over 700 years, the Ancestral Pueblo people built thriving communities on the mesas and in the cliffs of Mesa Verde. Today, the park protects the rich cultural heritage of 27 Pueblos and Tribes and offers visitors a spectacular window into the past. This World Heritage Site and International Dark Sky Park is home to over a thousand species, including several that live nowhere else on earth.
What you’ll hear
30 places to explore in this park.
- Balcony House Parking Area
- Cliff Canyon Overlook
- Cliff Palace Loop Road
- Cliff Palace Overlook
- Cliff Palace View
- Farming Terrace Trail
- Far View Community Sites
- Far View Lodge
- Fire Temple & New Fire House
- Hemenway House Overlook
- House of Many Windows Overlook
- Introduction & Pithouse
- Knife Edge Trail
- Mesa Top Loop (Introduction)
- Mesa Top Loop Road
- Mesa Top Sites
- Mesa Verde National Park Entrance Station
- Navajo Canyon View
- Oak Tree House
- Park Point
- Petroglyph Point Trail
- Point Lookout Trail
- Prater Ridge Trail
- Soda Canyon Overlook Trail
- Spruce Canyon Trail
- Spruce Tree House Overlook
- Square Tower House
- Sun Point Pueblo
- Sun Point View
- Sun Temple
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