Pipe Spring National Monument, Arizona

Pipe Spring National Monument is located in Arizona and is rich with American Indian, early explorer, and Mormon pioneer history. The water of Pipe Spring has made it possible for plants, animals, and people to live in this dry desert region. Ancestral Puebloans and Kaibab Paiute Indians gathered grass seeds, hunted animals, and raised crops near the springs for at least 1,000 years. Pipe Springs was discovered and named by the 1858 Latter-day Saint missionary expedition to the Hopi mesas led by Jaco Hamblin. In the 1860s Mormon pioneers from St. George, Utah, led by James M. Whitmore brought cattle to the area and a large cattle ranching operation was established.

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Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona

The Glen Canyon Dam is the second largest dam on the Colorado River at Page, Arizona.
The Glen Canyon Dam is located upstream from the Grand Canyon National Park and is a 710 ft high concrete arch dam, it is 300 ft thick at the base and 1560 ft in length. It controls the water flow from the upper to the lower Colorado River drainage basins. The dam's main purpose includes generating electrical power and storing water. The dam generates an average of 451 megawatts, with the maximum capacity of 1300 megawatts. The Dam created the large reservoir called Lake Powell.

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Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona

We camped at Lee’s Ferry on the Colorado River, this is where the Grand Canyon ends and the Glen Canyon recreation, Lake Powell areas begin. The Vermilion Cliffs are the second "step" up in the five-step Grand Staircase of the Colorado Plateau, reddish or vermilion-colored cliffs. They extend from a location near Page, Arizona, and west for a considerable distance, in both Arizona and Utah.

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Grand Canyon, Arizona

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States' oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world. The park covers 1,902 miles of area in Coconino County and Mohave County.

This is one of those places that is indescribable unless you are standing here! A camera can’t capture the beauty and enormous size of the canyon.

We stayed on the south rim at camper village, covered in snow once again. The weather changes fast here, we were hiking in t-shirts earlier in the day and ended up in heavy jackets by evening time.

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Slide Rock State Park, Arizona

The park is named after the famous Slide Rock, a stretch of slippery creek bottom adjacent to the homestead. Visitors may slide down a slick natural water chute or wade and sun along the creek.

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 irrigation system still in use by the park today. This allowed Pendley to plant his first apple orchard in 1912, beginning the pattern of agricultural development that has dominated the site since that time. Pendley also grew garden produce and kept some livestock.

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Red Rock State Park, Arizona

Hiking at Red Rock State Park offers magnificent views of the Sedona area.

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