National Monument

Montezuma Castle National Monument

Arizona · Camp Verde, AZ

1906

Established

860

Acres

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Operator:928-567-3322
Address:2800 Montezuma Castle Road · Camp Verde, AZ · 86322

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Montezuma Castle is one of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in North America. Built by the Sinagua people around 1100 CE, the 20-room structure sits 70 feet up in a limestone cliff.

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From Wikipedia

Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a well-preserved cliff dwelling located in Camp Verde, Arizona. The National Monument also protects and preserves the Castle A site, a contemporaneous dwelling site located near the cliff dwelling. The construction of the Montezuma Castle and Castle A sites are both attributed to the Southern Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian archaeological culture that may be closely related to several ancestral indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States. Archaeological evidence suggests that the dwelling was constructed as early as 1125 AD and occupied until as late as 1395 AD.

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