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Cliff Palace
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You don't just walk into the past at Mesa Verde (
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, the site of 600 ancient
cliff dwellings. You scramble up 10ft ladders, scale rock faces and crawl through tunnels.
Yes, it's interactive exploring at its most low-tech, but it also makes for one of the most ex-
hilarating adventures in the West. It's also a place to puzzle out the archaeological and cul-
tural clues left by its former inhabitants - Ancestral Puebloans who vacated the site in AD
1300 for reasons still not fully understood.
