Mesa Verde National Park is a most fascinating place! Mesa Verde is Spanish for green table. Here you can take a look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made this their home for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1300. Today, the park protects over 4,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States. You can actually go down on a walking tour with a guide but we opted not to do that on our trip. It was a full day just to drive around and take in all the sites. The lines were very, very long for the tours and you had to go up and down a lot of steep steps so we looked from the observation deck. It amazes me how the Pueblo’s lived and how intelligent they were to build these structures using the natural geography to shelter them. Entire complexes were built. I guess they knew just how and where to build in order to keep cool in this hot enviroment as well as using the geography to protect them from rain and other weather elements.
one of the major complexes at Mesa Verde
Linda and David standing at the overlook to the above photo
Linda and David at another overlook in the Mesa Verde National Park
