Travelers arriving at Mesa Verde on Wednesday morning learned that the federal shutdown had closed most of the park, leaving only the main road, overnight lodgings and a few trails accessible. As of ...

Mesa Verde National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site and an International Dark Sky Park. Located in southwestern Colorado ...

The rush of visitors who lined up at Mesa Verde National Park on Wednesday morning thinned by Thursday, a day after the park’s partial closure and the federal government shutdown. By midmorning ...

Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado protects and preserves the cultural heritage of 26 tribes of Ancestral ...

The iconic cliff dwellings aren't the only nighttime attractions at Mesa Verde National Park. Photo courtesy of Mesa Verde County The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado.

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In the end, we went to both, and were glad we did. As we found out, both are clusters of authentic ruins, and we actually enjoyed the differences. We could also see, though, that some folks would be ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NASA personnel will soon be in Colorado for a celestial event that hasn’t been visible from North America in more than a decade. On Oct. 14, Mesa Verde ...

There's no time to be nervous. The kids charge ahead up the 32-foot ladder, squeezing through a narrow, 12-foot tunnel, walking in toeholds carved into dusty sandstone. Imagine if you could only get ...

In 1889, while searching for stray cattle in southwestern Colorado, rancher Richard Wetherill and his four younger brothers stumbled across ancient ruins in the cliffs of a high plateau known as Mesa ...