We drove to Prescott today. It's about 40 miles from Cottonwood but it seemed like a hundred. Route 89A to Prescott from Cottonwood is the curviest, mountainous road I have ever driven. About a tenth of the way up is a town called Jerome. It is an old mining town and it is literally hanging on the the hill side. Many of the buildings are
cantilevered out of the mountain side. The road is narrow, there is no shoulder and you are right up against the guard rails, when there are any. The views are great, most curves are listed at 20 miles an hour and many of them are U curves. When we got to the top it said the elevation was 7000 feet. Going down wasn't quite as bad. When we got to the other side it was amazing, there was a flat plateau as far as the eye could see. There is a new town growing up there called Prescott Valley. We still had about 15 miles to go to Prescott but it was all on a flat plain. We drove around town stopped at the town square and visited the shops around the court house. We ate lunch at a Taco Bell and headed back home. Peggy is really afraid of those windy, mountainous roads so we took another but longer way home. We went back by route 69 and 169 to interstate 17. The good thing about doing that is you get to see a different part of the country. We decided to stop at
Montezuma's Castle on the way back. It is just a few miles off interstate route 17 near Camp Verde.
This is the only pull off we could find with a view. The pull off is just around one of those U curves. Didn't get any pictures in Prescott it's just a big town. It's weather is pleasant in the summer because it's at an elevation of 5300 feet.
This is
Montezuma's Castle it was built around 1000 AD as were most of the Pueblos in the southwest. This one was built by the
Sinaquas. They were all abandon around 1400 AD and no one knows why. Hopis claim they are the descendants of these tribes.
This is the sand stone that the castle was made from. It looks very crumbly to me. There are hole all through it. Some of the slabs have broken away and look like they are going to fall at any minute. For further in formation about this National Monument click on the link below.
Sign telling the benefits of the Creosote Bush and how it was used.
Picture of a Creosote Bush in bloom. There are more pictures in the album under Arizona.
Tomorrow we are going on our train ride.
This is the only pull off we could find with a view. The pull off is just around one of those U curves. Didn't get any pictures in Prescott it's just a big town. It's weather is pleasant in the summer because it's at an elevation of 5300 feet.
This is Montezuma's Castle it was built around 1000 AD as were most of the Pueblos in the southwest. This one was built by the Sinaquas. They were all abandon around 1400 AD and no one knows why. Hopis claim they are the descendants of these tribes.
This is the sand stone that the castle was made from. It looks very crumbly to me. There are hole all through it. Some of the slabs have broken away and look like they are going to fall at any minute. For further in formation about this National Monument click on the link below.
Sign telling the benefits of the Creosote Bush and how it was used.
Picture of a Creosote Bush in bloom. There are more pictures in the album under Arizona. 
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