Cliff Palace

Cliff Palace in 2018

Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure is located in Mesa Verde National Park.

Gallery

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  Cliff Palace dwellings

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  13th-century mural in a rectangular tower, Cliff Palace

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  Round tower, Cliff Palace in 1941.
  Photograph by Ansel Adams.

Cliff Palace Media

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  Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado. Photographed by Gustaf Nordenskiöld in 1891.

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  The ground plan for Cliff Palace from a survey published in a book by Jesse Walter Fewkes, c. 1909

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  Cliff Palace in October 2018

Bibliography

• Chapen, Frederick H. The Land of the Cliff-Dwellers. Appalachian Mountain Club, W. B. Clarke and Co., Boston, 1892. Reprinted by the University of Arizona Press, with notes and foreword by Robert H. Lister, 1988. ISBN 0-8165-1052-0.
• Noble, David Grant. "Ancient Ruins of the Southwest", pp. 36–43.Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, Arizona 1995. ISBN 0-87358-530-5.
• Oppelt, Norman T. "Guide to Prehistoric Ruins of the Southwest", pp. 159–161. Pruett Publishing, Boulder, Colorado, 1989. ISBN 0-87108-783-9.

Other websites

• Cliff Palace at National Park Service
• Mesa Verde National Park at National Park Service
• Map showing location of Cliff Palace at National Park Service