St Clair Mountain aka 'Las Brazaletes' -Drone views

Here's a view directly from above, encompassing all the ruins. The 'rooms' cover the peak, at the top of the photo, and from there spill down to the small plateau below it. North is to the right.

Here's a view more from the side, which shows how the rooms progress down from the hilltop. (If you like, you can always download the enlarged view to get a higher rez image.)

Not only are there many rooms on many levels, there is also terracing, held in by rock walls, that added level ground near many of those rooms –some of that terracing can be seen on the right side.


A view from the top, off to the east –the ruins had direct line of sight to the entire Lower Verde area. (There's an area 'line of sight' map on an earlier post.)

The rooms themselves were very well built, with flat walls and square corners...

... and there are a lot of high-quality pottery sherds, all of which makes me think "luxury resort" as much as "lookout" –the home, I suspect, of some very important people.

Like almost all the forts in this area, I could find no petroglpyhs. But there are the mysterious "cupoles", as in this photo. Any ideas?