Montezuma Castle National Monument
National Monument · Camp Verde, Arizona
A five-storey cliff dwelling of about twenty rooms built by the Sinagua people between about 1100 and 1425 CE in a limestone alcove some ninety feet above Beaver Creek, in the Verde Valley. Early settlers wrongly credited it to the Aztecs, hence the name. Proclaimed one of the first national monuments in 1906, it is among the best-preserved cliff dwellings in North America; visitors see it from a short, level, shaded path, since entry was stopped in 1951. A separate unit eleven miles away, Montezuma Well, is a spring-fed limestone sinkhole with cliff dwellings around its rim. It is one of the easiest ancient dwellings in Arizona to reach, a minute off Interstate 17.
Montezuma Castle Road, Camp Verde, Arizona, 86322, United States
Open daily with seasonal hours, closed on some holidays. Montezuma Well is a separate unit with its own hours. Check nps.gov/moca.
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