Agua Fria National Monument.


Tahoe and I visited the Pueblo la Plata ruins.











It was constructed between A.D. 1250-1400, and contained an estimated 120 rooms.











The site was named for Silver Creek which is in a beautiful, deep canyon just to the north.










I spent hours looking at the site. Tahoe found a buckhorn cholla bush, and I had to extract a large piece of the cactus from his skin.












I was surprised to find the structures in such good shape. There weren't any pictographs, but the basalt rocks are not really condusive to that.













Broken pottery, arrowheads, tools, and artifacts were scattered around the site.