Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Arizona State Parks. Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages. [1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers ...
Northwestern Chihuahuan Desert. Municipalities. Benson and Sierra Vista. Range coordinates. 31°48′41″N 110°25′07″W / 31.8114757°N 110.4186871°W / 31.8114757; -110.4186871. Borders on. San Pedro River, San Pedro Valley, I-10, Mule Mountains and Huachuca Mountains. The Whetstone Mountains is a mountain range in Cochise ...
Chiricahua National Monument is a unit of the National Park System located in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona. The monument was established on April 18, 1924, to protect its extensive hoodoos and balancing rocks. The Faraway Ranch, which was owned at one time by Swedish immigrants Neil and Emma Erickson, is also preserved ...
Jerome State Historic Park: Yavapai: 5,000 1,500: 1957: Honors the Douglas family of mining entrepreneurs in their 1916 adobe mansion: Kartchner Caverns State Park: Cochise: 4,700 1,400: 1988: Preserves a limestone cave kept in near-pristine condition since its discovery in 1974: Lake Havasu State Park: Mohave: 928 376: 480 150: 1965: Provides ...
The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...
Kartchner Caverns State Park; T. Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park This page was last edited on 30 January 2011, at 16:31 (UTC). ...
Why is the state park being credited with them continuing to grow? It's quite a stretch to give them credit for a natural process. 12.164.194.12 ( talk ) 17:03, 21 January 2012 (UTC) [ reply ]
USGS Apache Peak. Apache Peak, at 7,714 feet (2,351 m), is the highest peak in the Whetstone Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. The summit, located in the Coronado National Forest, is a popular local hiking destination. It is located near the Kartchner Caverns State Park, the city of Benson, Interstate 10, and Arizona State Route 90.