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Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon © Rafael Zhadanovskiy
November 2010, South Rim
Grand Canyon National Park © Dewese Milstead
Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon © Rafael Zhadanovskiy
November 2010, South Rim
Grand Canyon National Park © Dewese Milstead
Picacho Peak State Park Picacho Peak © John Hunnicutt II
Taken of the south face during sunset with a little banner cloud hovering at the top.
Tonto National Forest Crooks Trail Overlook © George Bowers
This photo was taken at one of the numerous turnouts along the General Crook Trail also designated as SFR 300.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area © Joe Leavitt
Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge © Hollingsworth, John and Karen - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
View from Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona 1
Cactus Wren © stateparks.com
A species of wren that is native to the southwestern United States southwards to central Mexico.
Small Boy Fishing © stateparks.com
Gone fishin.
Picnic Table © stateparks.com
It is always a great day for a picnic in the park.
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Arizona's Northern Region Parks

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National Parks
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State Parks
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National Recreation Trails
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National Forests
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State Recreation Area
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National Historic Site
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National Monuments
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Apache National Forest
The Apache and the Sitgreaves National Forests were administratively combined in 1974 and are now managed as one unit from the Forest Supervisor's Office in Springerville. The two million acre Forest encompasses magnificent mountain country in east-central Arizona along the Mogollon Rim and the White ........more >
Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, administered as one national forest, encompasses over two million acres of magnificent mountain country in east-central Arizona. The Sitgreaves National Forest was named for Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves, a government topographical engineer who conducted the first ........more >
Bill Williams National Recreation Trail
Here in Arizona backcountry hiking is an excellent idea. Can't wait to get out in the wilderness, Bill Williams National Recreation Trail in Coconino County, Arizona is a good spot to go. Bill Williams National Recreation Trail is not very in the neighborhood of Prescott at all, but it is a good shelter ........more >
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
For nearly 5,000 years, people have lived in these canyons - longer than anyone has lived uninterrupted anywhere on the Colorado Plateau. In the place called Tsegi, their homes and images tell us their stories. Today, Navajo families make their homes, raise livestock, and farm the lands in the canyons. ........more >
Coconino National Forest
Located in central Arizona, lies the Coconino National Forest. Northward lies the Colorado Plateau, a high, cold desert of flat-lying rocks and sheer-walled canyons. Southward lie hot desert basins and rugged mountains - the basin and range province which includes the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. ........more >
Escudilla National Recreation Trail
This 3 mile walk to the top of Arizona's third highest mountain is such an outstanding trail that it has been given recognition by Congress as a National Recreational Trail. The scenery is magnificent, the surroundings are picturesque and the walking is comparatively easy, considering the heights to ........more >
Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area
Imagine camping among 100-foot pine trees beside a quiet lake watching majestic great blue herons at a cool 6,300 feet in elevation. Year-round camping, fishing, picnicking, boating and wildlife viewing opportunities make Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area a popular place. This 800-acre, cool, country ........more >
General George Crook National Recreation Trail
When American settlers first began homesteading in Arizona, the Apaches caused them all kinds of headaches. The Army established outposts at Fort McDowell, Fort Verde, Camp Reno, Fort Apache, and Camp San Carlos. General George Crook, who was the head of the military department, established a supply ........more >
Grand Canyon National Park
The Grand Canyon is more than a great chasm carved over millennia through the rocks of the Colorado Plateau. It is more than an awe-inspiring view. It is more than a pleasuring ground for those who explore the roads, hike the trails, or float the currents of the turbulent Colorado River. This canyon ........more >
Hubbell Trading Post
Feel the old wooden floor give slightly beneath your footsteps and hear it sqeak as you enter the front door of the oldest continuously operating trading post on the Navajo Nation. Let your eyes adjust to the dim lighting of the bullpen and you might even catch the trader negotiating a deal with a Native ........more >
Kaibab National Forest
Located in northern Arizona, lies the Kaibab National Forest. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River divides the North Kaibab and Tusayan Ranger Districts of the Kaibab National Forest. Elevations within the forest are as low as 5,500 feet in the southwest to a high of 10,418 feet on Kendrick Mountain ........more >
Lyman Lake State Park
Created as an irrigation reservoir by damming the Little Colorado River, Lyman Lake State Park is a 1,200-acre park that encompasses the shoreline of a 1,500-acre reservoir at an elevation of 6,000 feet. It is fed by snowmelt from the slopes of Mount Baldy and Escudilla Mountain, the second and third ........more >
Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science. The park is located in northeast Arizona and features one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood. Also included in the park's 93,533 acres are the multi-hued badlands of the Chinle Formation ........more >
Sitgreaves National Forest
The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest cuts a sickle-shape arc across east-central Arizona's highlands, all of it astride the high-elevation country of the Mogollon Plateau and the White Mountains. This is an Arizona that bears little resemblance to the arid, sun-blasted deserts of southern Arizona. ........more >
Slide Rock State Park
Originally the Pendley Homestead, is a 43-acre historic apple farm located in Oak Creek Canyon. Frank L. Pendley, having arrived in the canyon in 1907, formally acquired the land under the Homestead Act in 1910. Due to his pioneering innovation, he succeeded where others failed by establishing a unique ........more >
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
The cinder cone volcano's rim is the dusky red of sunset, but the crater is only part of the story. Around 1085 the ground began to shake, and lava spewed high into the air. When the eruption finished, it had changed both the landscape and the people who lived here. Today, it teaches how nature and ........more >
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Come gaze across curved canyon walls. Among the remarkable geological formations of the canyon itself, the former homes of ancient inhabitants are easily evident. Along the trails you can imagine life within Walnut Canyon, while visiting actual pueblos and walking in the steps of those who came before.........more >
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