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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

National Parks Week: Montezuma Well

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

We visit a mysterious sinkhole in Arizona that has befuddled an exclusive group of divers who’ve gotten a glimpse of a strange world at its sandy bottom. For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat itineraries, check out the Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to the National Parks.

Transcript

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0:34.7

Hey, everybody, happy Wednesday. So we are continuing our tour through the National Park System.

0:41.2

If you missed yesterday's episode, it's about this tiny area of land in Yellowstone.

0:46.0

We're due to an odd legal loophole.

0:49.0

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0:52.9

Go check it out.

0:53.9

It's a great kind of legal loophole story.

0:57.1

So today we're actually heading to a national monument. These are places with some historic or

1:02.7

cultural or scientific value. They're different from national parks. And the park service

1:06.4

manages 87 different national monuments. And this one, out in Arizona, Montezuma's castle,

1:13.5

has a very strange body of water next to it, called Montezuma well.

1:18.4

And at the bottom, there is a seemingly unanswerable mystery.

1:22.6

We dive deep into that well.

1:25.6

Here's the episode.

1:31.6

Thank you. dive deep into that well. Here's the episode. In 1873, a man set out to investigate what had been called a bottomless well out in rural

1:39.5

Arizona.

1:41.8

This supposedly bottomless body of water was near a town called Rimrock. Its name was Montezuma

1:48.3

Well, but really it was more like a really deep sinkhole. And it was big. It was 368 feet across.

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