TUZIGOOT National Monument, Northern Arizona, USA

Location: west of I-17 between Phoenix and Flagstaff, just north of Jerome
Address: Tuzigoot National Monument, Tuzigoot Road, Clarkdale, AZ 86324, phone (928) 634-5564 (visitor information)
Distance: 105 miles from Phoenix, 72 miles from Flagstaff via I-17 or 52 miles via AZ-89A (Sedona).
Opening hours: open year-round (except December 25th), summer from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm, winter from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Fees: $3.00; the National Park Pass, Golden Eagle, Golden Age, and Golden Access Passport cards are honored.
Direction from Phoenix: Drive I-17 North towards Flagstaff, use Exit 287 and drive to Cottonwood on Highway 260. In Cottonwood use Main Street north towards Clarkdale.
Direction from Flagstaff: Drive I-17 South towards Phoenix, use Exit 287 and then see above.

Tuzigoot National Monument. It is an ancient village or pueblo built by a culture known as the Sinagua which were agriculturalists and traded with other people hundreds of miles away. The pueblo was abandoned around 1400.

Tuzigoot National Monument (enlargeable)
The history and architecture. The pueblo of Tuzigoot grew slowly over a 400-year period, beginning first with a series of small romms in the center of the hilltop. Apparently, there was no overall plan and rooms were added as the population increased. The pueblo extended about 500 feet long on a north-south axis along the ridge top with the main section about 100 feet wide.

Different levels of rooms in the
southern corner of the pueblo

Room on top of the pueblo
with a flat look-out roof

Limestone and sandstone deposits from the ridge provided the building materials for the walls, while juniper, pine and cottonwood trees were hauled up the hillsides for roof support posts. In time-honored fashion, new rooms were built on the ruins of old ones.
Entry to most rooms was by way of ladders through roof top hatches and the contiguous design was a good example of prehistoric thermal efficiency.
At its most productive time - the late 1300s - the Tuzigoot pueblo contained 86 ground floor rooms and, possibly, 15 second story rooms, with about 225 people living there.

Inside the pueblo

Reconstructed room,
shown in the visitor center

Nearby attractions:
Please visit the page Trips and Sightseeing in northern Arizona for other interesting parks, monuments and places north of Phoenix.

All information: as of fall 2003

Link to website and information about the Tuzigoot NM (link opens in a new window):
Tuzigoot NM official website @ www.nps.gov

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