This morning we drove north to Tuzigoot National Monument, where a 14th-century, 110-room Sinaguan pueblo was discovered and rebuilt in the 1930s.  We first did the marsh hike:

Next we visited the visitor center:

It was fascinating to see 500 year old jewelry:

The Indians here mined and traded a number of colorful minerals:

Next we hiked out to the pueblo site:

When the site was found in the 1930s, the walls had all collapsed, leaving behind the only the lowest row of stone and mortar.  The park service reconstructed the site to give visitors a better idea of what it looked like back in the day.

Looking north from the top:

And South:

The park service rebuilt this enclosed room to give visitors a better idea of what the dwellings look like inside:

The kids earned their Junior Ranger badges:

Next we drove west to the hillside town of Jerome:

Jerome has many galleries and shops.  We stopped to visit this copper boutique:

The shop had a number of artillery cartridges from World War I that soldiers at the time had crafted into trench art:

We also visited the Audrey Shaft Headframe Park.  The headframe stands above a 1,900 foot deep shaft that was use to bring copper ore to the surface.  The mine eventually produced over 500,000 tons of copper:

The shaft itself is covered with an acrylic walkway.  Walking over it, we could look down into the darkness as we stood over a 1,900 foot vertical drop below our feet.  Falling down the shaft would entail a free-fall 650 feet longer than from the roof of the Empire State Building to ground level:

We tried to explore downtown Jerome, but parking was a problem, so we returned to Cottonwood and did some grocery shopping before returning to the RV.