12 mi. S of Cortez via U.S. 666, Cortez, Colorado. County/parish: Montezuma.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000252.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Yucca House National Monument is a United States National Monument located in Montezuma County, Colorado between the towns of Towaoc (headquarters of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe) and Cortez, Colorado. Yucca House is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site.
Yucca House was established as a national monument in 1919, by President Woodrow Wilson's Proclamation No. 1549.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84131785