The Manitou Cliff Dwellings are a privately owned tourist attraction[1][2] consisting of replica Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings[3] and interpretive exhibits located just west of Colorado Springs, Colorado, on U.S. Highway 24 in Manitou Springs.

The Manitou Cliff Dwellings were built at their present location in the early 1900s, as a museum and tourist attraction.

Some of the building materials were looted and stolen from a collapsed Ancestral Puebloan site near Cortez in southwest Colorado, shipped by railroad to Manitou Springs, and assembled in their present form as Ancestral Puebloan-style buildings resembling those found in the Four Corners.

[6] The project was directed primarily by Virginia McClurg, founder of the Colorado Cliff Dwelling Association.

[7][8] McClurg's creation of Manitou was highly controversial even at the time of its opening,[9] in part because it was being promoted as authentic,[2] and eventually caused the demise of the Colorado Cliff Dwelling Association and created rifts amongst Southwest archaeologists and enthusiasts.