cliff palace

温度太高，热死了，开车进去从游客中心至景点还有好长一段山路。印第安人生活真不容易，被美国人赶到这种地方也能生存下去。精神可嘉！走走看看，想像着以前他们是怎么样生活的。喜欢人文地理的人可以去感受下！

I cannot give as full a review as others have, because the Cliff Palace is closed for restoration for at least part of 2015. However, this affords the opportunity to view it from Sun Temple Viewpoint with absolutely no people wandering around as you look. We were also given the opportunity to park our car at the gate of the road leading to Cliff Palace and hike a few miles out to be able to view it from the cliffs above. It's still breathtaking even when you can't be amoung the ruins themselves and currently, it's got its own sort of magical quality just because of how serene and undisturbed it looks as archaeologists work to restore it.

All of Mesa Verde is wonderful, but this is a must hands on experience. You really get an appreciation for how the Ancestral Pueblo people lived. This is a very well narrated tour, as are all of the park's guided tours. You can tell all of the guides love their job and are truly engaged in the history of the park. Over the last ten years, we've been her four times and look forward to returning to share the experience with our grandchildren. Plan on staying in Cortez, NM, and spending two or more days here. You won't regret it. One day is just not enough!

We loved this place. You get to actually walk through the entire Palace and have a very informative tour guide. There is some climbing on a ladder that may scare a few off and you should be in decent/not dead shape. There are a few tight spots but the views are inspiring. Take the kids along id they are not to young and can climb.

We stopped here on a recent road trip. I wasn't up for the tour/hike down, so I took photos from the view point at the top, but my husband took the tour - and couldn't stop talking about it! According to him it was way less physically demanding that the guides made it out to be, so I regret staying top side. The whole park is interesting, and we wish we had more time to explore it. It was a great 2 hour pit stop on our drive through Southern Colorado.

Mesa Verde was truly an amazing visit and well worth visiting. The cliff dwellings really let you take a glimpse of life back in the day and make you appreciate what you have today. Spiritual, moving, inspiring... Highly recommend a visit to the dwellings

I wasn't sure about taking the guided tour because it was up and down ladders etc and we weren't used to the altitude but I'm so glad we did it. The guide was very informative and the trip was just the right length. The ladders and narrow gaps in the rock weren't a problem at all. The whole park is amazing but this is perhaps the highlight.

This Anasazi pueblo is the largest cliff dwelling on the continent. It dates back to about 1200 AD. Because of its strategic location in a cliff face, the site was easily defended from marauding bands. But a good thing was not going to last. It wasn't the environmental degradation by this people that forced them to abandon the pueblo. It's true that the pueblo was mainly built from sandstone and large timbers and that those timbers were a diminishing resource, but it was the climate that sealed the fate of Cliff Palace. There was an unrelenting drought that endured for about 25 years that culminated in the native population here finally throwing in the towel around 1300 AD and moving to new locations, mainly to the south and southeast. There are 150 rooms arrayed around about 23 kivas here. It's thought that the population here numbered about 100 inhabitants. The site opens at 8 AM and closes at sunset. My wife and I wore hiking shoes. We had no difficulty roaming all over the site, but I can imagine folks with disabilities might have problems getting around.This is easily one of the most spectacular pre-Columbian sites I've ever seen, and I've seen lots of them. Don't miss this!

The energy of this place is spooky. Worth the trip. We visited many of the cliff dwellings in the area this one is the largest.

The Cliff Palace is very well preserved and is well worth the trip. There are many others to see also.

We went the last day of the season and were lucky enough to be able to tour the Cliff Palace! The tour was the perfect length; only 1 hour. Such a great site! The guide mentioned tours may not be able to visit the site next year due to stabilization efforts so check before getting your hopes set on it. We werent able to do other tours, so I can't speak to them.

We visited Mesa Verde NP in Oct 2014. At this time of the year the Wetherill Mesa was closed to public, therefore the things to visit were Balcony house the Cliff palace. We were there for the day and chose to visit the Cliff Palace as well as driving around and stopping at the various view points. Its a very interesting and beautiful place. For what we did the time allocated was plenty, but you want to go hiking and visit more things you need more than a day. We stayed in the park at Far View lodge which is quite basic. Cortez, 30 min drive away offers more options.It's a highly recommended visit as the place is unique and as with all US national parks very well maintained. be careful if you are not very feet as this is located at high altitude and visiting the house involves climbing a few narrow flights of stairs. A few people in our group looked like heart attack candidates when negotiating the stairs, but they made it alive.

Mesa Verde National Park is really beautiful. The mountains, the scenery.... just gorgeous. Visiting the Indian Cliff Dwellings was very special. As a kid, you saw these things in history books and I could never imagine actually being there myself. We are experienced hikers, so we considered it a small climb up and down, but I can see why it is not for everyone, especially in the heat of day. Better to get here as early as possible if you're in the summer.

This is a great piece of American history and worth hiking to if you are up to it. Consider it a challenge for 2 seniors, as there are narrow stone stairs, ladders and tight rock formations to negotiate which makes it difficult to maneuver. Not a hike for people with bad knees, respiratory problems or those who are claustophobic.Having said all that we survived it. The NPS ranger, Kevin Lloyd, provided us with a superb hisotry of the people and area. It was extremely informative, and I can't believe there is a better tour guide there. The tour is very photographic and well worth it, but consider it challenging.Fee is only $8.00

Can only do this as part of a ranger lead tour. It is worth it but does require steps and ladders, so consider carefully. You can the Cliff Palace from a view point across the valley but try and see close up if you can. My husband wanted to do this but I must admit I enjoyed it almost as much as him.