PICTURE 1 - Overall View This is a good view from the top 'house', looking northwest. The white building below is the monument visitor center. As a member of the tuzigoot 'pueblo', your fields are below, with the river behind you.


PICTURE 2 - View from Below This is the opposite view from below, showing the rooms and multiple floors. Notice the wall-building technique above. This is one of the ways archeologists determine who built it and approximately when (here about 1200ce).


PICTURE 3 - Example Room Here, we're entering a re-built room, so you can get a feel for the darkness, even during the day! Access to the upper levels was achieved either through the room blocks (show here), or by use of external ladders.


PICTURE 4 - Inside a Room This is inside the same room. The rocks were generally carried up from below (since the bottom rooms would have already used the rocks nearby!). Similarly, if you lived in the upper-rooms, you had to carry up your water, wood and foodstuffs. Plus, you had to worry about accidental fire from rooms below!


PICTURE 5 - Split Lofts! The easiest way to create more room was just to split a room into two. Notice the wall in the middle is not 'load-bearing' and likely added later (by the park staff!). Also notice how support poles attach to cross members above, 'nicking' a portion of each end.


PICTURE 6 - Old and Modern This is a nice view from the 'pueblo' looking down on the Verde Valley southeast. The river is among the trees below, and the modern city of Cottonwood is in the distance. Those are the Black Mountains in the distance.


PICTURE 7 - More Realistic View! Tuzigoot originally looked more like this, when local residents began collecting potchards and creating a small local museum. It was the CCC during the depression that eventually built the national monument buildings, creating today's delight!


PICTURE 8 - CCC Buildings As you visit various national parks and monuments, notice the quality of work. These were young men without jobs that did lasting work for the nation. Here, the entry matches some of the anasazi entrances, plus the roofing details are interesting.