FUN-travel: Miraculous Mesa Verde, CO
June 13, 2018 by Susan Clarke
- Dating from AD 550…
…for over 700 years…
…Ancestral Pueblo people made it their home.
- Spanning across 40+ miles of roads…
…contains over 5000 archeological sites…
…& some of the most notable & best preserved in the US…
…including 600 cliff dwellings…
…mesa top sites of pit houses – pueblos – masonry towers & farming structures.
FUN-fact – After living primarily on the mesa top for 600 years, they began building structures under the overhanging cliffs of Mesa Verde—anything from one-room storage units—to villages of over 150 rooms.
More FF – In 1978, Mesa Verde National Park was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
