Montezuma Castle National Monument

It"s not a castle and Montezuma was never here.

With heightened concern over vandalism of fragile southwestern prehistoric sites, Montezuma Castle became a major factor in the nation"s historic preservation movement with its proclamation as a national monument. The Castle was described in the December 1906 establishment proclamation as "of the greatest ethnological and scientific interest."

Acreage: 840.86, federal: 16.83, non-federal.