Remains Discovered At Mesa Verde National Park

Above, Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde National Park last week. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Right after Mitch Geriminsky and I visited Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado last week, human remains were found near Spruce Tree House at the park. It is an odd feeling to think that a missing man's skeletal remains were near where we were.

According to CBS 4 Denver:

(CBS4) – Authorities say personal items accompanying human remains found Thursday in Mesa Verde National Park allow them to tentatively identify the bones as those of a man who went missing there in 2013. Park officials, in a Friday press release, said they are tentatively identifying the remains as Mitchell Dale Stehling.

Stehling was visiting the park with his, father and mother on June 9, 2013.

According to the National Park Service’s Cold Case web page, Stehling told his family he wanted to see the Spruce Tree House cliff dwelling at the end of a quarter-mile long trail. He started hiking at 4:30 p.m. and never returned.

Hopefully, Stehling's family gets some closure with this discovery.

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