A shift away from non-Native voices can be heard during an audio tour and a visitors’ center film at the park.
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Mesa Verde is one of Southwestern Colorado’s biggest attractions. About half a million people come from around the world every year to learn more about a community of ancestral Native Americans who lived in hand-made rock structures from the year 550 until 1300.
Having left the area, they left behind visual remnants that defy physics and gravity: long slabs of circular rock formations covered above by evergreens, below which remain 600 cliff dwellings, ensconced in canyon walls. Over 700 years, they built more than 4,700 architectural sites: pithouses, towers, kivas and cliff dwellings carved into sandstone and made of bricks that look handmade.
