Climb down the ladder to experience the enclosed kiva at Spruce Tree House.
The path, while paved, winds down steeply to the ruin site.
Ruins are visible through the trees.
Spruce Tree House.
Puebloan ruins at Mesa Verde are made of sandstone blocks and mortar.
This open kiva would have been covered when Spruce Tree House was occupied.
The ancestral Puebloans abandoned this dwelling around 1300 AD.
Much of the wood is original.