Tourists are being turned away from Arizona's Montezuma Castle National Monument as a result of the federal government shutdown.

This five-story, 20-room dwelling built into a limestone cliff is an architectural and engineering marvel. Historians believe the dwelling, referred to as Montezuma Castle, was built by the Sinagua ...

I love when we get to visit places that I’ve seen pictures of my whole life, and Montezuma Castle National Monument is one of those spots. When I was a kid I had a postcard of the historic structure ...

About 900 years ago the Sinagua Indians began building adobe, log and rock homes into the recessed face of a 150-foot high cliff in the Verde Valley, along Beaver Creek. An Ancestral Puebloan culture, ...

Montezuma Castle National Monument is wrapping trees to prevent vandalism. In March, natural resources technicians at the national monument used burlap to cover the bark of six Arizona sycamore trees ...

High up, in a niche of the towering limestone cliff, a giant house made of mud and stone stands seemingly inaccessible from the valley floor. To call Montezuma Castle a house is underselling it ...

CAMPE VERDE — Yasmeen Mustafa approached the locked gates at Montezuma Castle National Monument and let out a deep, frustrated sigh as it dawned on her that the monument -- and other national parks in ...