Balcony House Mesa Verde National Park

Zo noemen de Amerikanen de bewoners in de periode van 500-1200 na Christus in het gebied waar we nu zitten. Deze bewoners zijn vanuit Azie de Beringstraat over gestoken en hebben zich in eerder genoemde periode in dit gebed gevestigd. In het National Park van Mesa Verde (groene vlakte) waar we nu verblijven zijn er diverse Cliff Dwellings te zien, …

It was an interesting night's sleep last night as it was punctuated at the beginning of the sleep by our teenage next-door neighbor who kept yelling, "yuck" or giggling hysterically as she attempted to settle down and fall asleep. That was not nearly as difficult to sleep through as the man three sites down who spent the better part of the time …

... (your choice, we're not PC here) cliff dwellings.  I was fortunate to catch the last tour of the day into Balcony House, a medium sized dwelling that requires an adventurous little hike down into the side of the cliff.  Nice park, and the only ...

Once we had breakfast we set out to "discover" the wonders of the National Park. Mesa Verde is an ancient Pueblo Indian site in the mountains and is over 7000ft above sea level. The views of the canyons are spectacular. Our first activity was a guided ...

... playing pool with some Colorado kids while we do the laundry. We also met a family from Cowan - it's a small world. Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado combines fun with the most significant archaeological site in the US. It was occupied from 1 AD ...

... around 1275 AD leaving the Mesa Verde area. We had to climb a 30 foot ladder to get to the Balcony House, built and lived in on the edge of Mesa Verde.  And, then crawl through the original exit that was built small for protection.  Then ...

... are near step-by-step illustrations from pictures I took, of our tour, which later led to a tour of a second section of the park called, "Balcony House." Our guide said what is open to the public to tour is just a small sliver of what is actually all out ...

... is beautiful scenery and if we thought we could fair the winters it would be tempting to move there. Stop number 2, was Mesa Verde National Park.  Home to the Native American cliff dwellings dated from 1200 AD to 1300 AD.  Native American's ...

October 1-2, 2008 Mesa Verde National Park We had plans to see our friend Mike (from Las Vegas) in Fish Lake, Utah the first weekend in October. We stopped for a couple of days in southern Colorado on our way and camped in Mesa Verde National Park. ...

... ; these steps were not meant for shoe sizes above a 10. It did have a chain on the side which I gladly used. After Balcony House we drove a short distance to the Spruce Tree area which had another cliff dwelling and the HQ for the National Park. They ...

... , we took another tour of the Cliff Palace dwellings. The Cliff Palace is the most known cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde. I don't think it was as fun as the Balcony House tour, though. We did get to go in a dwelling and see some painting s on the walls. ...

... opportunity to see and experience a little of what life was like for the Anbcestral Puebloans over 1400 years ago... Mesa Verde National Park was created in 1906 by Congress  to preserve the archeological heritage of he Ancestral Puebloans..The ...