Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments

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: