Oh man I miss AZ. Went to school in Tempe and then up to Camp Verde to work and live at Montezuma's Castle. The management office of the casino up there used to be partially owned by the park service as the headquarters for the area. The Yavapi-Apache have a story of the tower there and how it looks like a Ladder that leads from the "underworld" to the world that we know.
NewAgers would come dip their stones in the water at Montezuma's Well. Some believe the power was on the one side of the cave others believed it came out from the other. And Bell Rock is actually a space ship gathering it's people to take back to where they came.
Dunno if it is still there but there was a place outside of town called Red Tank Draw, that had come really cool petroglyphs if you walked thru the canyon. Could only go there in the late summer because before that and after a heavy rain, the canyon would be filled with water. Got pictures somewhere of me and the dog floating down the waters of the creek. There and skinnny dipping in, let me think, Beaver Creek or Clear Creek out behind the "Castle".
Oh memories.....................
Coyote
