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Summer Hours 8-5 Daily
Please note that our summer hours will continue as 8am to 5pm daily. Some guide books may not be updated. 5pm is when the gates close, so for a complete visit please arrive by 4pm.
National Park Getaway
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Contact: Ed Cummins, 928-567-3322 x227
National Park Service News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2011 Contacts: Ed Cummins, Montezuma Castle National Monument, 928-567-3322 ext. 227, e-mail us Elise Cleva, NPS Headquarters, 202-208-6843, e-mail us Montezuma Castle National Monument This week’s National Park Getaway Camp Verde, Ariz. – This week, come on a vicarious journey with the National Park Getaway series of travel articles (http://www.nps.gov/getaways) and marvel at the lushness of Arizona. If it sounds preposterous—an invitation to check out water and plants in the desert Southwest—trust that this paradox, like others, has truth at its core. Or, even better, don’t treat the concept of green in Arizona as a paradox at all. Rather, free yourself of the stereotypical perception of the state as a sun-blasted, cactus-barbed, sandy expanse, and learn about one of the other landscapes encompassed by Arizona’s borders. At Montezuma Castle National Monument, located north of Phoenix and in the center of the state, the Arizona scenery features trees and shrubs, lime-colored foliage along the bank of a running creek, and another, stiller, body of water, which forms the second of two components of the park, located 11 miles from each other. Take a look at the Getaway article to learn more about this lake-like feature through words and images. As the name of the national park suggests, the landscape here includes manmade as well as natural points of interest. Once again, folks will find stereotypes upended—this time by a castle, which, though without turret, moat, or drawbridge, is nonetheless regal. See the National Park Service homepage, http://www.nps.gov, for a clear vie w of this breathtaking structure that emerges from a limestone cliff. Then, read about the prehistoric, 12th-century building in the Getaway. Also, while you’re on http://www.nps.gov/getaways, remember that you’re just a click away from the archive of previous Getaway articles, and check out some of the national parks we’ve featured in the past. |
Did You Know?
Groups of divers have explored Montezuma Well nine times. This picture from 1968 shows one of the first expeditions. The divers found that the Well is 55ft deep with fissures for springs reaching 120 and 140ft deep.