Some 4,400 sites have been recorded, including villages built on the Mesa top. There are also imposing cliff dwellings, built of stone and comprising more than 100 rooms.

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 ...

From underwater wildlife in Biscayne to Native American cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde, these underrated, lesser-known, and less-visited US national parks offer unique experiences. First things ...

Bears Ears National Monument is a cultural landscape and the ancestral lands of Native American tribes who are working to protect them.