These are all National Parks, Monuments or Forests

Canyon de Chelly National Monument

• 1931 by Herbert Hoover
• Translates as Canyon in the Rocks
• Navajo still live there
• Spider Rock – Spider Woman
• Anasazi
• White House Ruin
• Navajo 1700’s – James Buchannan 1860’s

Pipe Spring National Monument

• 1923 by Warren G Harding
• Mormon Tithing Ranch
• Winsor Castle

Ironwood Forest National Forest

• 2000 by Bill Clinton
• NW of Tucson
• 129,000 acres
• Lots of saguaros
• Ironwood trees that are over 800 years old

Navajo National Monument

• 1909 by Roosevelt
• Hopi Hisatsinom
• Tsegi Canyon
• Betanikel Ruin
• Keet Seel – “Broken Pottery”

Chiricahua National Monument

• 1924 by Calvin Coolidge
• “Land of Standing Up Rocks”
• Geronimo’s hiding place
• 27 million year old volcanic activity,
  then erosion by wind, water and ice

Grand Canyon National Park

 

Grand Canyon Parashant

• 2000 by Bill Clinton
• 1 million acres – 2 billion years

Park Monument National Forest

Organ Pipe National Monument

• 1937 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• 175º ground temperature in summer
• It takes 10,000 seeds to produce a single plant
• Thrives in REALLY hot climate

Kitt Peak Observatory

• SW of Tucson

Casa Grande Ruins

• 1918 by Woodrow Wilson
• Hohokam
• N/W/E/W Observatory – round portals
• Early monitoring of celestial events
• Solstice, time, seasons

San Francisco Peak

• Formed 2-3 million years ago

Sunset Crater Volcano

• 1930 by Herbert Hoover
• Visit @ sunset
• John Wesley Powell 1885
• 1064 volcanic eruption and active for 130 years
• 800 square miles of volcanic ash

Wupatki National Park

• 1924 by Calvin Coolidge
• Sinagua Indians
• Still 3,000 people
• Was a trading post
• Pueblo and Hohokam influences
• Community Circle – Kachina Dances

Vermillion Cliffs National Monument

• 2000 by Bill Clinton
• Sedimentary rock – dinosaur bones
• 38 miles – Paria River
• 1870 – John D Lee – a Mormon pioneer

Tonto National Monument

• Salado People
• Suddenly disappeared approx 1200’s

Agua Fria National Monument

• 450 documented ruins

Walnut Canyon National Monument

• Sinagua Indians
• Suddenly left approx 1250’s.

Tuzigoot

• Abandoned in the 1400’s

Montezuma Castle

• 1906 by Teddy Roosevelt
• The first National Monument in Arizona
• Sinagua Indians
• Left pictographs of a dot surrounded by four concentric circles
  Translates as “Time to move on.”

Sonoran Desert National Monument

• 2000 by Bill Clinton
• Sky Islands