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Mesa Verde National Park’s Spruce Tree House

Spruce Tree House is one of the best-preserved and most impressive cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. Built beneath a massive sandstone alcove on Chapin Mesa, the ancestral Pueblo village contains roughly 130 rooms and eight kivas, with sections rising several stories high. Archaeologists estimate that approximately 60 to 80 people may have lived …

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