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Canyon de Chelly National Monument
P.O. Box 588 Chinle, AZ 86503
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(928) 674-5500
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At the base of sheer red cliffs and in canyon wall
caves are remains of American Indian villages built between A.D. 350
and 1300. Visitors have the opportunity to learn about Southwestern
Indian history from the earliest basketmakers to the Navajo Indians
who live and farm here today.
The Visitor Center is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Route 191
in Chinle, AZ.
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Casa
Grande Ruins National Monument
1100 Ruins Drive Coolidge, AZ 85228-3200
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(520) 723-3172
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Within these ruins is the Casa Grande or "Big House,"
one of the largest and most mysterious prehistoric structures ever
built in North America. Casa Grande Ruins, the nation’s first
archeological preserve, protects the Casa Grande and other
archeological sites within its boundaries.
The park is in Coolidge, Arizona, about an hour-long
drive from either Phoenix or Tucson. From Interstate 10 take the
Coolidge exits and follow the signs to the park entrance off Arizona
Route 87/287.
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Chiricahua
National Monument
13063 E. Bonita Canyon Road Willcox, AZ
85643-9737
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(520) 824-3560
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Twenty seven million years ago a
volcanic eruption of immense proportions shook the land around
Chiricahua National Monument. One thousand times greater than the 1980
eruption of Mount St. Helens, the Turkey Creek Caldera eruption
eventually laid down two thousand feet of siliceous ash and pumice.
This mixture fused into a rock called rhyolitic tuff and eventually
eroded into the spires and unusual rock formations of today.
Chiricahua National Monument is located 120 miles east
of Tucson. Exit I-10 at Willcox, and follow State Route 186 36 miles
to the monument. Obtain gas in Willcox; gasoline is not available at
or near the monument.
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Coronado
National Memorial
4101 East Montezuma Canyon Road Hereford, AZ
85615
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(520) 366-5515
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This Memorial commemorates the first major European
exploration of the American Southwest. Coronado National Memorial lies
on the United States-Mexico border within sight of the San Pedro River
Valley, through which the Coronado Expedition first entered the
present U.S. in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola.
From Phoenix or Tucson take I-10 east and exit south
on Hwy. 90 to Sierra Vista, then south on Hwy. 92 to S. Coronado
Memorial Drive. (From Bisbee, take Hwy 92 west). Follow S. Coronado
Memorial Drive 5 miles to the Visitor Center.
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Fort Bowie
National Historic Site
3203 South Old Fort Bowie Road Bowie, AZ
85605
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(520) 847-2500
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Fort Bowie
commemorates the story of the bitter conflict between the Chiricahua
Apaches and the United States military. For more than 30 years Fort
Bowie and Apache Pass were the focal point of military operations
culminating in the surrender of Geronimo in 1886 and the banishment of
the Chiricahuas to Florida and Alabama.
Visit the web site or call for more information.
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Glen
Canyon National Recreation Area
P.O. Box 1507 Page, AZ 86040-1507
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(928) 608-6404
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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area offers
opportunities for water-based and backcountry recreation. The
recreation area stretches from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange
Cliffs of southern Utah, encompassing scenic vistas, geologic wonders,
and a panorama of human history.
Lees Ferry and the Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center
is located on Arizona Highway 89A. Carl Hayden Visitor Center in Page,
Az is on Highway 89. The Bullfrog Visitor Center is located on Utah
Highway 276. Halls Crossing is also reached by Highway 276. Hite is
located just off Utah Highway 95
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Grand
Canyon National Park
P.O. Box 129 Grand Canyon, AZ 86023-0129
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(928) 638-7888
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The park, focusing on the world-famous Grand Canyon of
the Colorado River, encompasses 277 miles of river and adjacent
uplands, from the southern terminus of Glen Canyon NRA to the eastern
boundary of Lake Mead NRA. One of the most spectacular examples of
erosion anywhere in the world, Grand Canyon is unmatched in the
incomparable vistas it offers to visitors on the rim.
Grand Canyon Village (SOUTH RIM) is located 60 miles
north of Interstate 40 at Williams via highway 64, and 80 miles
northwest of Flagstaff via highway 180. Only ten miles from rim to rim
as the crow flies, the North Rim is 215 miles (about 4 1/2 hours) from
the South Rim by car. The NORTH RIM is 44 miles south of Jacob Lake,
AZ, via highway 67. Visitor services and facilities inside the
national park on the North Rim are only open from mid-May through
mid-October.
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Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic
Trail
P.O. Box 67 Tumacácori, AZ 85640-0067
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(520) 398-2341
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In 1775, Juan Bautista de Anza shepherded 198
emigrants and their escorts and 1,000 head of livestock on the first
overland colonizing expedition from Sonora, Mexico into Alta, or
Upper, California. In Arizona, citizens in Santa Cruz County have
completed a 4.5 mile segment of the trail from Tumacácori National
Historical Park to Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. The trail is
marked and interpreted along a five-mile segment of the Santa Cruz
River in Tucson where the Anza Trail Coalition of Arizona has planted
a tree in Anza’s memory along the Paseo de los Arboles. About 13 miles
of the trail can be experienced in Maricopa County in a pristine
setting on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management
You can obtain a roadguide by contacting the park
office. General guidebooks for national trails: Miller, Arthur P. and
Marjorie. Trails Across America. Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colorado.
1996. Cordes, Kathleen Ann. America’s National Historic Trails.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 1999
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Hubbell
Trading Post National Historic Site
P.O. Box 150 Ganado, AZ 86505-0150
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(928) 755-3475
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Hubbell Trading Post is the oldest continuously
operating trading post on the Navajo Reservation. The trading post was
purchased in 1878 by John Lorenzo Hubbell and was operated by the
Hubbell family until it was sold to the National Park Service in 1967.
The trading post is still active, and operated by a non-profit
organization that maintains the trading traditions established by the
Hubbell family.
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site is located
one mile west of Ganado, on highway 264. Visitors traveling on I-40
can take highway 191 north to Ganado, or from Gallup, New Mexico, take
highway 666 north to highway 264
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Lake Mead
National Recreation Area
601 Nevada Highway Boulder City, NV 89005
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(702) 293-8990
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Lake Mead and Lake Mojave formed by Hoover and Davis
Dams on the Colorado River combine with over one million acres of
surrounding desert and mountains to compose the first National
Recreation Area established by an act of Congress.
There are nine paved accesses into Lake Mead NRA. For
the directions most convenient for you please visit the web site or
call for more information.
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Montezuma
Castle National Monument
2800 Montezuma Castle Road Camp Verde, AZ
86322
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(928) 567-3322
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Nestled into a limestone recess high above the flood
plain of Beaver Creek in the Verde Valley, Montezuma Castle stands as
one of the best preserved cliff dwellings in North America. The
five-story, 20-room cliff dwelling served as a "high-rise apartment
building" for prehistoric Sinagua Indians over 600 years ago.
Montezuma Castle is located 3 miles off Interstate 17.
Use Exit Number 289 and follow signs.
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Navajo National
Monument
H.C. 71, Box 3 Tonalea, AZ 86044-9704
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(928) 672-2700
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Navajo National Monument preserves three of the
most-intact cliff dwellings of the ancestral Puebloan people
(Hisatsinom). The Navajo people who live here today call these ancient
ones "Anasazi." The monument is high on the Shonto Plateau,
overlooking the Tsegi Canyon system in the Navajo Nation in Northern
Arizona. The monument features a visitor center, two short self-guided
mesa top trails, two small campgrounds, and picnic area.
Paved AZ Hwy 564 turns north off US-160 at Black Mesa,
and leads to the visitor center.
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Organ Pipe
Cactus National Monument
10 Organ Pipe Drive Ajo, AZ 85321-9626
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(520) 387-6849
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument celebrates the
life and landscape of the Sonoran Desert. The Monument exhibits an
extraordinary collection of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including
the organ pipe cactus, a large cactus rarely found in the United
States. There are also many creatures that have been able to adapt
themselves to extreme temperatures, intense sunlight and little
rainfall.
From the NORTH: follow AZ Hwy 85 through Ajo and
Why. The Monument is 22 miles (35.4 km) south of Why.
From the EAST: follow AZ Hwy 86 to Why, then turn south on AZ Hwy
85.
From the WEST: follow I-8 to Gila Bend or I-10 to Buckeye, then
turn south on AZ Hwy 85.
From MEXICO: drive on Mexico Route 2 to Sonoyta, then north to
Lukeville.
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Petrified Forest National Park
P.O. Box 2217 Petrified Forest National
Park, AZ 86028-2217
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(928) 524-6228
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Petrified Forest National Park is a land of scenic
wonders and fascinating science. The park features one of the world’s
largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood. Also
included in the park are the multi-hued badlands of the Chinle
Formation known as the Painted Desert, historic structures,
archeological sites and displays of 225 million-year-old fossils.
Visitors traveling west on Interstate 40 should exit
at milepost 311, drive through the park and connect with U.S. Highway
180 at the south end. Take U.S. Highway 180 to Holbrook to continue
west on Interstate 40. Eastbound visitors exit Interstate 40 at
Holbrook and take U.S. Highway 180 to the park’s south entrance.
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Pipe
Spring National Monument
HC65, Box 5 Fredonia, AZ 86022
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(928) 643-7105
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The water of Pipe Spring has made it
possible for plants, animals, and people to live in this dry, desert
region. Ancestral Puebloans and Kaibab Paiute Indians gathered grass
seeds, hunted animals, and raised crops near the springs for at least
1,000 years.
From Interstate 15, turn onto Utah State Route 9 in
Hurricane, Utah. Take Utah State Route 59 east out of Hurricane. This
road turns into Arizona State Route 389 at the state line. Pipe Spring
is 45 miles east of Hurricane. From Utah Highway 89 and 89A, turn onto
Arizona State Route 389 in Fredonia, Arizona. Pipe Spring is 15 miles
east of Fredonia.
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Saguaro
National Park
3693 South Old Spanish Trail Tucson, AZ
85730-5601
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(520) 733-5153
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The saguaro has been described as the monarch of the
Sonoran Desert, as a prickly horror, as the supreme symbol of the
American Southwest, and as a plant with personality. Unique to the
Sonoran Desert, the giant saguaro cacti sometimes reach a height of 50
feet in this cactus forest, which covers the valley floor, rising into
the Rincon and West Tucson mountains. In lushness and variety of life
the Sonoran Desert far surpasses all other North American deserts.
Rincon Mountain District: Travel east from Tucson
on Broadway or Speedway to Freeman Road; Take Freeman Road south
(right) to Old Spanish Trail (4 miles [6.5 km] from Speedway, 3 miles
[5 km] from Broadway). Turn left onto Old Spanish Trail heading south.
Look for signs to the Park entrance approximately .25 miles [.4 km]
from Freeman Road.
Tucson Mountain District: Travel west from Tucson
on Speedway Boulevard. At the junction with Camino de Oeste, Speedway
Boulevard will change names to Gates Pass Road. From this junction,
continue to drive west on Gates Pass Road until you reach the "T"
intersection with Kinney Road (4 miles [6.5 km]). Turn right on Kinney
Road and drive three miles [5 km] north to the Park entrance on the
right side of Kinney Road.
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Sunset
Crater Volcano National Monument
6400 North Hwy 89 Flagstaff, AZ 86002
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(928) 526-0502
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Here, pueblos and cliff dwellings are so well
preserved that it’s hard to believe their builders moved on 700 years
ago. Ancient Indians undoubtedly witnessed the eruption of Sunset
Crater Volcano in 1064-1065 that blanketed the region with black
cinder. Today, the volcano’s rim of red cinders and the lava flows
near the cone seem to have cooled and hardened to a jagged surface
only yesterday.
From Flagstaff, take U.S 89 north for 12 miles (19km),
turn right on the Sunset Crater - Wupatki Loop road and continue 2
miles (3km) to the visitor center.
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Tonto National
Monument
HC02, Box 4602 Roosevelt, AZ 85545
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(928) 467-2241
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Well-preserved cliff dwellings were occupied by the
Salado culture in the 13th, 14th, and early 15th centuries. The people
farmed in the Salt River Valley and supplemented their diet by hunting
and gathering native wildlife and plants. The Salado produced some of
the most exquisite polychrome pottery and woven textiles to be found
in the Southwest. Many of these objects are on display in the Visitor
Center museum.
Driving time from Phoenix, Scottsdale, or Tucson: 2.5
to 3 hours; from Flagstaff: 3 to 3.5 hours. Visit the web site or call
for directions.
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Tumacacori
National Historic Park
P.O. Box 67 Tumacacori, AZ 85640-0067
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(520) 398-2341
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Tumacacori National Historic Park, located in the
Santa Cruz River Valley in southern Arizona, is the site of one of the
oldest Spanish missions in the Southwest. The 45-acre park consists of
three distinct units: Tumacacori, Guevavi, and Calabazas established
by Jesuit Father Kino in the late 1690s on the northern frontier of
New Spain.
Take Interstate 19 south from Tucson 45 miles to exit
29 and follow the signs. The park is 18 miles north of Nogales, AZ,
which is on the Mexican border.
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Tuzigoot
National Monument
P.O. Box 219 Camp Verde, AZ 86332
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(928) 634-5564
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Tuzigoot is an ancient village or pueblo built by a
culture known as the Sinagua. The pueblo consisted of 110 rooms
including second and third story structures. The first buildings were
built around A.D. 1000. The Sinagua were agriculturists with trade
connections that spanned hundreds of miles. The people left the area
around A.D. 1400.
Located 52 miles south of Flagstaff via U.S. Alternate
Highway 89A, or 90 miles north of Phoenix. Travel Interstate Highway
17, take Exit 287 and travel west on Highway 260 to Cottonwood. In
Cottonwood take Main Street north towards Clarkdale.
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Walnut
Canyon National Monument
6400 North Hwy 89 Flagstaff, AZ 86002
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(928) 526-3367
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Pueblo Indians built these cliff dwellings in shallow
caves under ledges of limestone about 800 years ago. There is
something for everyone in this area: the Walnut Canyon cliff
dwellings, the mountain scenery and geology of Sunset Crater Volcano,
and the painted desert landscape and masonry pueblos of Wupatki
National Monument.
Leave I-40 at Exit 204, 7.5 miles (12 km) east of
Flagstaff; drive south 3 miles (5 km) to the canyon rim. Warning:
Tight turn around for towed vehicles; 40 feet (12 meters) maximum
length advisory.
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Wupatki
National Monument
6400 North Hwy 89 Flagstaff, AZ 86002
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(928) 679-2365
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Ruins of red sandstone pueblos built by farming
American Indians about 1065 are preserved here. The warm, arid climate
and sparse vegetation today make the successes of these farmers
remarkable. Here, you’ll see stunning artistry in masonry pueblos that
emerge from bedrock to stand several stories high.
From Flagstaff, take US 89 north for 12 miles (19km),
turn right at sign for Sunset Crater Volcano - Wupatki National
Monuments. The Visitor Center is 21 miles (34km) from this junction.
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