Yucca House National Monument

12 mi. S of Cortez via U.S. 666, Cortez, Colorado. County/parish: Montezuma.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000252.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • Yucca House--Aztec Springs Ruin

From Wikipedia:

Yucca House National Monument

Yucca House National Monument is a United States National Monument located in Montezuma County, Colorado between the towns of Towaoc (headquarters of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe) and Cortez, Colorado. Yucca House is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site.

Yucca House was established as a national monument in 1919, by President Woodrow Wilson's Proclamation No. 1549.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84131785

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