2007 SW Trip: Mesa Verde
Previous Next
There's an easy trail to the ruin from the Chapin Mesa Museum. From the interesting brochure: "Spruce Tree House, the third largest cliff dwelling among several hundred in the park boundaries (Cliff Palace and Long House are larger), was constructed between AD 1200 and 1276 by the Anasazi. The dwelling contains about 114 rooms and eight kivas (kee-vahs), or ceremonial chambers, built into a natural cave measuring 216 feet at greatest width and 89 feet as its greatest depth. It is thought to have been home for about 100 people."