Montezuma's Well by Verryl V Fosnight Jr
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Here it is. The holes are post holes and fire pit holes.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 10:44 AMViews: 111

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The abutment was perhaps a store room or ceremonial room??
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 10:51 AMViews: 115

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This is the next stop, a wide spot in the road to park and this path to a archeologically recovered building foundation covered by the Park Service.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 10:42 AMViews: 110

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The first stop along the road to the Well itself is a grassy picnic meadow surrounded by cooling trees. there are restrooms and tables, and it is bordered by ancient canals as described in this sign.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 10:35 AMViews: 111

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This is one of the canals, now overgrown with weeds. the sides appear to have been concrete covered, but it is the calcium carbonate deposited on them by the running canal water from Montezuma's Well (see previous photo of sign).
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 10:36 AMViews: 106

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The calcium carbonate laver coating the canal can be seen here.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 10:36 AMViews: 112

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The recreation of the structure.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 10:46 AMViews: 145

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sign at the end of the road parking lot.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 10:56 AMViews: 132

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Approaching the well.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 11:03 AMViews: 138

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Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 11:01 AMViews: 107

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Overlooking the well which is 470 feet in diameter and about 65 feet down to the water.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 11:04 AMViews: 117

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Three stone houses built under the cliff.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 11:06 AMViews: 116

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Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 11:05 AMViews: 143

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The depth of the water is not know exactly, but at 55 feet depth the sandy bottom is churned by the inrushing water, which falls as rain and snow on the surrounding Mongollon Rim, and is absirbed by the ground at those high elevations, and then it filters down to the rock below the well and bubbles up. Really. The Mogollon Rim or is a topographical and geological feature cutting across the U.S. state of Arizona. It extends approximately 200 miles, starting in northern Yavapai County and running eastward, ending near the border with New Mexico.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 11:06 AMViews: 110

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Ducks (Whippins, or something like that???) the guide called them.
Capture Date: Nov 2, 2017 11:07 AMViews: 109

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