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Cliff Palace in its alcove, Mesa Verde National Park

Fig. 1Cliff Palace in its alcove, Mesa Verde National Park

Photo: Tobi 87 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Landform

The largest Ancestral Puebloan alcove village in the canyon wall — masonry rooms and kivas under a sandstone overhang.

Field note

Cliff Palace is a home place. Rooms and kivas sit in the alcove as they were built. Walk only the designated path and overlooks. This is Mesa Verde, not a hunt and not a lost city.

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Prints from Mesa Verde


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

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