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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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of caves of the world that have articles or that are properly cited. They are sorted by continent and then country. Caves which are in overseas territories on a different continent than the home country are sorted by the territory's continent and name.
US. State. Minor. Scenic. The Trail of the Ancients is a collection of National Scenic Byways located in the U.S. Four Corners states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. These byways comprise: The 366-mile (589 km) Trail of the Ancients National Scenic Byway in San Juan County, Utah; [ 1]
Bladon Springs State Park: Choctaw: 357 144: 1939: Choctaw County---Historic spa grounds with mineral springs: Chickasaw State Park: Marengo: 520 210: 1935: Marengo County---Near David K. Nelson Wildlife Management Area Paul M. Grist State Park: Dallas: 1,080 440: 1930s: Dallas County: Paul Grist Lake: Swimming, fishing, boating, camping Roland ...
Cathedral Caverns is a karst cave with a large stalagmite forest covering approximately 3 acres (1.2 ha). The public portion of the cave extends along 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) wheelchair-accessible, concrete walkways for approximately 3,500 feet (1,100 m) and has some 2 miles (3.2 km) of paths; another 2,700 feet (820 m) extend beyond the end of the pathway. [5]
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 United States Congress designated the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in 1990. It is the smallest such designated wilderness in the state of Arizona. Today, the 2,900,000-acre (12,000 km 2) Tohono O'odham Nation (second largest reservation in the United States) lies to the west. Baboquivari Peak's elevation is 7,730 feet (2,356 m).