Yucca House
- Colorado
photo: National Park Service
Why go there?
Yucca House National Monument is located at the foot of Sleeping Ute Mountain, in Montezuma County, Colorado between the towns of Towaoc and Cortez, Colorado. Yucca House is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site. The site is one of many Ancestral Pueblo village sites located in the Montezuma Valley occupied between AD 1100 and 1300 by 13,000 people. The site was first identified by cowboys in the late 1800s who reported finding "potsherds, human bones, and other artifacts". In the early 1900s, more extensive excavations were conducted by J.W. Fewkes and Sylvanus Morley of the Smithsonian Institution.
