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Lake Havasu Area, AZ

Buckskin Mountain State Park, Bill Williams River Wildlife Refuge and Lake Havasu City! Our last stop in Arizona was Buckskin Mountain State Park about 20 miles South of Lake Havasu City.  Buckskin Mountain SP sits on the Colorado River and it is a very different river than what flows through the Grand Canyon!  The river is flat with zero rapids! The state park is small, but we really enjoyed it; given we felt we had the best site in the park! Just up the road, is the Bill Williams River Wildlife Refuge.  This area offers a short hike down a…

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Yesterday we toured the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum adjacent to Saguaro National Park.  The concept of the museum is to allow visitors to see the nature of the desert in a natural setting.   The museum consists of several buildings that include live habitats for reptiles, butterflies, hummingbirds as well as a vast area of a desert zoo.  We headed to the reptile building and saw the local rattlesnakes (so we can identify them to the medics when we are attacked by one hiking), but quickly left because this building was also a Covid incubator!  We then went to the outdoor…

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Our Search for Wild Horses

Yesterday we headed out very early in search of wild horses at Salt Creek River near Lost Dutchman State Park.  We were prepared to  fail as we took fishing equipment as well as art work to spend the day at the river.   There are about 5 areas of Salt Creek that you can get to the river to see the horses.  We started at Granite Reef Recreation area...nothing but horse poop!  We continued to Coon Bluff Recreation area...no horses but plenty of horse poop.  So we decided to try fishing...first we fly fished, great fun, but no fish and…

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Read more about the article Tuzigoot Ruins, Jerome State Park

Tuzigoot Ruins, Jerome State Park

Yesterday we toured Tuzigoot Ruins in Clarkdale AZ and then spent the day in Jerome AZ.  The Tuzigoot Ruins are a National Monument  (Tuzigoot is Apache for “crooked water”) and is remnant of the Southern Sinagua village built between 1000 and 1400.  The original pueblo was two stories tall in places with 87 ground floor rooms. There were few exterior doors; entry was by ladders through roof openings.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuzigoot_National_Monument  We then drove up to Jerome State Park.  The state park tells the story of the city of Jerome within the Douglas Mansion. The Douglas Mansion has been in Jerome…

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