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Mesa Verde National ParkCliff Palace is Mesa Verde's largest cliff dwelling
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Mesa Verde National Park
Cliff Dwellings
 

The pages listed below provide information about some of the cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. For site locations, go to park maps, or click on the specific map located on each page below. (Note: All maps on the following Cliff Dwelling pages open as pdfs. To get the Free Adobe Reader, which is required to read the pdf files, click here.)

 
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To learn about other types of ancient dwellings, please see the Mesa Top Sites page.

Balcony House
Visiting Cliff Dwellings
for information on visiting the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde
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Cliff Palace in the snow  

Did You Know?
Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park. It has 150 rooms, plus an additional 75 open areas. Twenty-one of the rooms are kivas, and 25 to 30 rooms have residential features. The number of Ancestral Puebloans living in Cliff Palace at any one time was 100 to 120.

Last Updated: July 26, 2007 at 17:50 EST