Today we went out for a nice breakfast, picked up the Jeep with newly installed muffler and visited the Tuzigoot National Monument. Tyler earned another badge while we visited and photographed the ruins. We also went over to the Clarkdale railroad museum. Being a Junior Ranger has some pull. The curator opened the museum just for us.
Tuzigoot is Apache for "crooked water" and is a Southern Sinagua village estimated to have been built between 1125 and 1400. Unlike all the other ruins we have seen, the Sinagua built their village atop a hill, easily visible. The ruins at Mesa Verde, Natural Bridges, and Navajo were all carefully hidden in Southern facing alcoves high above the valley floor.
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