• View inside Spruce Tree House

    Mesa Verde

    National Park Colorado

Mesa Verde Website Image Collection

For Teachers and Students

Here is a collection of images seen in the header (top image) on many of the pages within the Mesa Verde website. They are all low resolution web images, but may be useful for students to use in reports.

Just right click on the image you want, and select Save Picture As.

 

 
Cliff Palace before excavation and stabilization
Cliff Palace before excavation and stabilization
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Cliff Palace is Mesa Verde's largest cliff dwelling
Cliff Palace is Mesa Verde's largest cliff dwelling
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View of visitors on a Cliff Palace tour
Visitors on a Cliff Palace tour
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View of visitors on a Balcony House tour
Visitors on a Balcony House tour
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Within a courtyard in Balcony House
Within a courtyard in Balcony House
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Visitors in the kiva courtyard of Balcony House
Visitors in the kiva courtyard of Balcony House
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View of Spruce Tree House from above
View of Spruce Tree House
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View of Spruce Tree House with winter snow
View of Spruce Tree House with winter snow
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Spruce Tree House lit up with lanterns and luminaria during December Open House
Spruce Tree House lit up with lanterns and luminaria
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Archeologists working in Ancestral Puebloan sites
Archeologists working in Ancestral Puebloan sites
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Archeologists working in Ancestral Puebloan sites
Archeologists working in Ancestral Puebloan sites
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View from Park Point, the highest point in the park
A view from Park Point, the highest point in the park
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View from Mancos Canyon Overlook
A view from Mancos Canyon Overlook
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Various geologic features found in the park
Various geologic features found in the park
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Short-horned lizard
Short-horned lizard
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Yellow-headed collared lizard sitting on a rock
Yellow-headed collared lizard
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Owl in Spruce Tree House
Owl in Spruce Tree House
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Rocky Mountain elk
Rocky Mountain elk
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Black bear in tree
Black bear in a tree
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Did You Know?

Mesa top pueblo at Far View Sites Complex

Approximately 600 of the over 4700 archeological sites found in Mesa Verde National Park are cliff dwellings. Other sites include mesa top pueblos, farming terraces, towers, reservoirs, and check dams.