· exploring · national monument · Montezuma Castle NM · Turzigoot NM
We visited the Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments in Arizona.
The Montezuma Castle National Monument consists of two parts, separated by a few miles: Montezuma Castle, and Montezuma Well.
Montezuma Castle is a 20-room Indian pueblo ruin, built into a cliff:
Info:
Model:
View from a distance:
Info:
Visitor center:
Montezuma Well is part of the same National Monument, but physically separated:
Well Come:
Info:
A park ranger had a snake (rattlesnake, I think?) in a bucket, that he had caught near a path (snake warning, Mom!):
The snake wasn’t having a good day:
A structure built into the cliff above the well:
The well:
A ranger and Jenn talking about the info:
Ducks:
Steps leading down to the well:
Ruins:
Water is flowing into the well, so of course it has to have an outlet:
Outlet stream:
Steps:
We then went to the Tuzigoot National Monument, ruins of a hilltop pueblo village:
Tuzigoot museum:
Info:
Walls:
