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The Ruins Of Tuzigoot
For thousands of years, the Verde River Valley has been a human melting pot. Hunters and gatherers came first, searching for wild game and grasses. Traders followed, digging salt and minerals, and then settlers farming the fertile bottomlands.
A tribe of southern Sinagua built their masonry homes on this ridge about AD 1000 and established a thriving agricultural community. Inexplicably, they left in the early 1400s, more than a hundred years before the first Europeans rode into the valley.
A 1/4-mile trail winds up and through the remains of the Tuzigoot pueblo. (The sign asks visitors to stay off the walls and on the walkway, to help preserve the remnants of this earlier civilization.) |