Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Sierra Vista, Bisbee, Coronado National Memorial, Arizona


Coronado National Memorial commemorates and interprets the Coronado expedition and the cultural conflict and exchange between the indigenous peoples and Spaniards during the 1500's. The area offers panoramic views of the US-Mexico border and San Pedro River Valley.



At 6,575 feet, Montezuma Pass has sweeping views of the San Pedro River Valley to the east and San Rafael Valley to the west.  


 



To get to Coronado Cave there is an uphill half mile walk to the entrance.   This is a self guided cave adventure, the entrance and cave are unimproved.  
The rangers recommend two light sources for each hiker and plenty of water. 


Going down yikes!

I bought these headlamps for the grand kids, they came in handy.

  
We're at the start of our cave adventure, after you climb over the big rocks at the cave entrance you look back to the last bit of natural light.

Our lights really didn't shine that far.

First in and last out of the cave.




BISBEE


Our visit to Bisbee started at the peace wall


 The streets were very narrow and loaded with Gallery, Small shops and restaurants. Lots of history and stories.

Living on top of the world!!


A quirky little town close to the border of Mexico. Home of the Queens Silver Mine.   Lots of friendly local shop owners along with  great restaurants, entertainment and shopping.  

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

New Mexico, then Sierra Vista Arizona



New Mexico is very flat, the perfect place for wind turbines.

We stayed in Elephant Butte for a couple days along the Rio Grande River.  They call it a lake through this area and although it was the off season this is the boating place.





Were staying the month of February at Vista View Resort in Sierra Vista, Arizona.  It's a larger city with all the amenities of home, actually more than we have at home in Au Gres.  
We loved this area last year near Tombstone, Tubac, and Tucson and decided to return.  

These are the views from around the resort.  There are houses and some motor home sites available to rent by the month or season.











Whether your looking East, West, North or South mountains are off in the distance.  



Monday, June 10, 2019

Were back in Michigan


It's hard to believe our last post was from Winslow Arizona in April. I'll be back tracking to show you some of the cool places and things we did between there and here.

We traveled 8,600 miles in the motor home (Moose) since October 2018 those miles do not include miles we drive in the jeep.


Were on a mission to visit all the National Parks. 
The black pins on the map represent their locations.

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Winslow , Petrified Forest and Grand Falls, Arizona/Santa Rosa Lake,New Mexico

 Winslow, Arizona



Here's the corner in Winslow

Downtown Winslow, Arizona

Petrified Forest, Arizona


Entrance to The Park 


Information board on the petrified forest process



The flowers were just starting to bloom

Gives you an idea on the size of some of the trees

Had plenty of these Raven's in the park

Panoramic of the petrified valley


The color variations were beautiful

 Couple more panorama's

Grand Falls, Arizona

Grand Falls,Arizona is taller than Niagara Falls


Panoramic view

It almost looks like chocolate milk falling

Standing at the edge

Santa Rosa Lake, New Mexico

Nice pull through site

Pretty good sized man made lake in the desert

Lots of rock surfaces on the trail

This gives you a feel of the hiking trail

Some parts of the trail had juniper trees and cactus

Lots of dry debris waiting for a spark