Description: General view from the overlook into the southern half of Cliff Palace situated in a large natural alcove in the cliff-face. Visitors to the site lend a sense of scale to the ruins.
Description: View into the central area, part of which is built over a massive boulder which the Park Service stabilized in 1934 with 70 tons of steel and concrete, hidden by the wall beneath it.
Description: View over chinked masonry in foreground to the storage area in upper rear. Part of its wall is of carefully stacked rocks without mortar, or 'drywall.'
Description: View into the southern portion of the multi-terraced Cliff Palace. Note the square and circular towers including the four-story tower at right.
Description: View into the central portion of the complex with the curve of an elevated kiva wall contrasting with the sharp edges of towers reaching to the cave ceiling.
Description: View into a southern end kiva with its encircling bench, pilasters for roof support, and part of the central fire pit visible. At lower left is the ventilation hole for the kiva.
Description: Raking view of the lowest doorway of the four-story tower, the stones shiny with wear. Visitors are invited to peer inside at the wall paintings on the interior walls.
