Mesa Verde National Park is located in Southwest Colorado near the town of Cortez. This National Park was established by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to protect and preserve the historical cliff-dwellings of the Ancestral Puebloans. In 1978, it was designated as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization also known as UNESCO. According to Wikipedia, the park occupies 52,485 acres near the Four Corners region of the American