Mesa Verde National Park Travel Guide. Mesa Verde National Park preserves remarkable cliff dwellings and mesa‑top villages built by the Ancestral Pueblo people between 600 and 1300 CE. More than 600 cliff dwellings, including Cliff Palace and Balcony House, are situated on the canyon walls. These communities tell the story of ingenuity, adaptation, and cultural heritage in the high desert of southwestern Colorado.

As I sipped my morning coffee, I left the treelined neighborhood of Elmwood and drove down Hampton Road in Dallas, Texas. Just off the corner of Kiest, I pulled off the cement streets and onto an earthen two-track lane that led me to the trailhead of the Kiest Conservation Area.

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