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Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Top Sites
 
The pages listed below provide information about some of the mesa top archeological sites in Mesa Verde National Park. For site locations, go to park maps, or click on the specific map located on each page below. (Note: All maps on the following Mesa Top Sites pages open as pdfs. To get the Free Adobe Reader, which is required to read the pdf files, click here.)
 
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Badger House Community site
Badger House Community
 
Cedar Tree Tower
Cedar Tree Tower
 
Far View Sites Complex

Far View Sites Complex

 
Sun Temple
Sun Temple
 
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To learn about other types of ancient dwellings, please see the Cliff Dwellings page.

 
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Visiting Mesa Top Sites
for information on self-guided visits to mesa top sites and cliff dwellings
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Did You Know?
The Ancestral Puebloans inhabited Mesa Verde for more than 700 years (550 A.D. to 1300 A.D.), but for the first six centuries, they primarily lived on the mesa tops. It was not until the final 75 to 100 years that they constructed and lived in the cliff dwellings for which Mesa Verde is known.

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Last Updated: July 26, 2007 at 17:50 EST