{"id":3206,"date":"2017-11-21T02:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/?page_id=3206"},"modified":"2017-11-21T02:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T02:55:24","slug":"mesa-verde-national-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/our-rv-adventures-2017\/six-month-western-vacation\/mesa-verde-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Verde National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent several days in the area of Cortez & Durango, Colorado, visiting Mesa Verde National Monument, playing Dominion with our friends Roger & Cindi, and petting their dogs Pepper and Cali.<\/p>\n

Mesa Verde is an amazing place with hundreds of ruins left by the Ancestral Puebloan people over about an 800 year period — first living on the top of this high mesa, then building cliff dwellings that remain some of the best preserved in North America.<\/p>\n

We took a guided tour of Balcony House.\u00a0 This was somewhat daunting, as entry is achieved by climbing a 30 foot tall ladder!<\/p>\n

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But the close up experience with this cliff dwelling was worth it!<\/p>\n

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And the view from the cliff dwelling was breathtaking!<\/p>\n

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As we drove along the winding roadway, we stopped to view several other cliff dwellings…<\/p>\n

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House of Many Windows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Square Tower House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Mesa Top ruins were not as well preserved as the cliff dwellings, but still were quite interesting:<\/p>\n

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Judith – Cindi discuss kiva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mesa Top Kiva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The view of Cliff Palace from across the canyon was amazing!<\/p>\n

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Cliff Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The New Fire House was a split-level cliff dwelling with hand and toe holds carved into the rock to allow “easy” access between the two!<\/p>\n

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New Fire House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Of course the views were spectacular, too.\"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

We even saw a Western Scrub Jay!<\/p>\n

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We spent several days in the area of Cortez & Durango, Colorado, visiting Mesa Verde National Monument, playing Dominion with our friends Roger & Cindi, and petting their dogs Pepper and Cali. Mesa Verde is an amazing place with hundreds of ruins left by the Ancestral Puebloan people over about an 800 year period — … Continue reading Mesa Verde National Park<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2739,"menu_order":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3206\/revisions\/3224"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}