Casa Grande Ruins

Casa Grande Ruins is located at 1100 W Ruins Dr, Coolidge, AZ. This business specializes in Legal Services, Educational Services, Tourist Attractions and Outdoor Parks.

This site, whose original purpose still eludes archaeologists, was unknown to European explorers until Father Kino, a Jesuit missionary, first recorded the site's existence in 1694. The area was set aside as federal land in 1892 and named a national monument in 1918. Although only a few prehistoric sites can be viewed, more than 60 are in the monument area, including the 35-foot-tall—that's...

In Short
Rising four stories above the desert floor, Casa Grande (meaning Big House in Spanish) remains a mystery 650 years after it was last inhabited. It existed when the prehistoric...

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument ("Great House") and its surrounding compound as it may have appeared around 1350 C.E. One of the largest prehistoric structures ever built in North America, its purpose remains a mystery.Archeologists have discovered evidence that the ancient Sonoran Desert people who built the Casa Grande also developed wide-scale irrigation farming and extensive trade...