Mesa Verde Country is at the entrance of the Mesa Verde National Park. It was home to the Ancestral Pueblo people during the 11th and 12th centuries. They may have left, but the spectacular remnants from their lives still dot the rugged landscape of the Mesa Verde National Park. On your holiday to Colorado, you will not come across any sight more beautiful and intriguing than the cliff dwellings of the park that are one of the best preserved specimens in the whole of North America.
Dwellings ranging in size from one-room storage spaces to palaces with multiple rooms and entire villages with more than 150 rooms snuggle underneath overhanging cliffs. These are engineering and architectural marvels from an era when there were no machines and people only had their intelligence and hands to rely on. Mesa Verde Country around the park is steeped in history. The Hovenweep National Monument, Canyons of the Ancient National Monument, and Ute Mountain Tribal Park are some of the archeological sites around here. A trip to Mesa Verde Country and the Mesa Verde National Park is a journey back in time to appreciate the ingenuity, resourcefulness, intelligence, and intuition of a people who survived and thrived in a hostile environment by blending in with Nature.