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One historic landmark in Colorado: Mesa Verde.

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View of Mesa Verde National Park. Cortez, Colorado. — Pictured Mesa Verde
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Landmarks in Colorado

Indigenous America
Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde National Park, CO
Mesa Verde preserves the most remarkable cliff dwellings in North America — stone villages built into the canyon alcoves of southwestern Colorado by the Ancestral Puebloans more than seven centuries ago.

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Indigenous America
Before Columbus: The Great Cities of Ancient North America
A city of earthen pyramids on the Mississippi, great houses in a desert canyon, villages built into cliffs, and a pueblo still lived in after a thousand years — North America's oldest urban places.
Old USA Editors · 2 min read · September 28, 2026