Today the temperature peaked at 60 degrees so Barbara, Toby and I visited the nearby Tuzigoot (the g is silent) National Monument. We visited the visitor’s center and then I hiked to the remnants of the remaining pueblo. From there I hiked in the opposite direction to the Tavasci Marsh overlook adjacent to the Verde River. After the storms of last week, there’s still plenty of snow in the mountains surrounding Verde Valley. Below I included additional photos of the surrounding area.
Tuzigoot (Apache for “crooked water”) is the remnant of the Southern Sinagua village built between 1000 and 1400 AD. It sits on the summit of a long ridge rising 120 feet above the surrounding valley. The original pueblo was two stories high in places, with 87 ground-floor rooms. There were very few exterior doors; entry was by ladder through the roof openings. The village began as a small cluster of rooms for 100 years. In the 1200s the population doubled and then doubled again.
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Nice, our old Jeep stomping grounds when we lived in Scottsdale for a year a few years ago. Love Jerome. Had an undergound mining geologist job opportunity there my last year of college.
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