Cliff Palace - Mesa Verde National Park, CO - Ansel Adams Photo Hunt on Waymarking.com

Mesa Verde, in southwest Colorado, contains the abandoned ruins of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1300, then mysteriously disappeared. There are over 4,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings in the park. The Cliff Palace one of the largest, most easily accessible (provided you can handle the ladders), and most impressive of these sites.

Ansel Adams was about 20 feet higher up and towards the back of the cliff so that the large circular structure in the foreground. This spot is not on the visitors pathway, the NPS tour stays lower.

The photograph is from the National Archives and labelled:
79-AAJ-3 UNTITLED

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