We didn't have enough time to do Tuzigoot the same day as Montezuma Castle. So we pull over for the night at a fellow Escapee's member who has a site next to there house in Cottonwood. The next morning we head to the ruins.
Again, Tucson is allowed to tag along.
Tuzigoot is Apache for crooked water
the pueblo was built by the Sinagua between 1125 and 1400 CE. It is the largest and best-preserved of the Sinagua pueblo ruins in the Verde Valley
The pueblo has 110 rooms
The Puebo had very few doors. Instead there were trapdoor openings in the roofs, and they used ladders to enter each room. The National Park service put in these stairs. Tucson was happy to go up but had to be carried down.
A museum holds artifacts and interesting information about the ruins.
This is how the ruins looked before excavation in 1933
and after excavation in 1934
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