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Nestled in the Bill Williams River Valley in Western Arizona, Alamo Lake State Park is Arizona's best-kept secret.

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Founded by Col. William Boyce Thompson, Boyce Thompson Arboretum is Arizona's oldest and largest botanical garden, encompassing 323 acres of the Sonoran Desert.

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Buckskin Mountain State Park in Parker, Arizona is a picturesque location for all outdoor enthusiasts.

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Catalina State Park is home to approximately 5,000 saguaros and 150 species of birds.

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The park is a paradise for water activity enthusiasts, and the lake is 45 miles long!

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With the backdrop of a quiet desert landscape, Dankworth Pond State Park's peaceful setting invites visitors to swim, boat, and fish.

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A touching tribute to the 19 firefighters who lost their lives battling the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013.

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Homolovi State Park, or "place of the little hills," in the Hopi language, is known for its preservation of over 300 Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites.

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Dead Horse Ranch State Park hosts the annual four-day Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival as well as the Verde River Day.

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Visitors can explore the natural wonders of Kartchner Caverns State Park through 2.4 miles of passages.

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With scenic beaches, numerous campsites, and nature trails, Lake Havasu State Park is a premier destination for nature lovers.

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Lost Dutchman State Park is a trailhead for many nature trails in the Sonoran Desert, making it a haven for hikers.

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Oracle State Park is a 4,000-acre wildlife refuge and center for environmental education in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains.

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Patagonia Lake State Park is a popular location for nature enthusiasts in southeastern Arizona.

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Picacho Peak State Park is home to the prominent Picacho Peak landmark, which stands 1,500 feet tall.

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With striking views of a red sandstone canyon, Cathedral Rock, and the Mongolian Rim, Red Rock State Park is a popular destination near Sedona.

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A popular, year-round destination for water sports, fishing, and camping.

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Against the backdrop of the Pinaleno Mountain range, this park is a serene lake for all to enjoy.

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Slide Rock State Park is known for being one of the best swimming holes in the country.

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The arch in Tonto Natural Bridge State Park is believed to be the world's largest natural travertine bridge.

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Visitors can enjoy peaceful relaxation in the Verde River Greenway State Natural Area.

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Canyon de Chelly National Monument includes three beautiful canyons in northeast Arizona: the namesake de Chelly, Canyon del Muerto, and Monument Canyon.

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The "big house" referred to in the name of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is a four-story building constructed in the 14th century by the Hohokam people.

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Chiricahua National Monument is known for its "sky islands" -- vertical rock formations rising dramatically from the floor of the desert southeast of Tucson, Arizona.

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado didn't find cities of gold on his two-year journey, but visitors to Arizona's Coronado National Memorial can discover a wealth of information about this 16th-century explorer.

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Fort Bowie played a role in two decades of conflicts between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache tribe.

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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area covers a vast area -- 1.2 million acres, almost all of it desert -- but most activity in the park is concentrated on the waters of Lake Powell.

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More than five million people come to visit the Grand Canyon every year; most are satisfied to spend a few hours taking in the views from the South Rim, but that's just a tiny fraction of what Grand Canyon National Park has to offer.

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In sharp contrast to its namesake National Park, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument is one of the least visited, most remote places in the continental U.S.

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A peaceful meeting ground between two cultures (Navajo and European), Hubbell Trading Post stayed in the Hubbell family until 1965 and remains a thriving business operation.

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The trail route extends from Nogales on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, through the California desert and coastal areas in Southern California and the Central Coast region to San Francisco.

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Lake Mead is a popular escape from the desert heat in the Las Vegas area, and along with Lake Mojave makes up the most visited part of the 1.5-million-acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

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Arizona's starkly beautiful Verde Valley was probably a much greener place when the Sinagua people -- ancestors of the Hopi -- built the towering masonry dwelling known as Montezuma's Castle in the side of a cliff around 700 A.D.

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Cliff dwellings built by the ancient Puebloan people are scattered across the southwestern U.S. states, but those at the Navajo National Monument near Kayenta, Arizona are among the best preserved.

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The distinctive organ pipe cactus is common in Mexico, but Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument -- at the northern edge of its natural range -- is the only place these giant cacti grow in the U.S.

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The Late Triassic period may have occurred 225 million years ago, but it comes to life again at Petrified Forest National Park.

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The Native American pueblos built by the ancestral Hisatsinom people in north-central Arizona are the jewels of the Wupatki National Monument.

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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument has an interesting history: the drive to protect the site took form after 1920s Hollywood moviemakers tried to use this ancient cinder cone as a movie prop.

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The Salt River has long provided a rare source of water to residents of Arizona's Sonoran Desert, and the Salt River Valley was populated and farmed by the Salado people during the 13th-15th centuries.

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A trio of 17th and 18th century Spanish mission churches, established by the Jesuits in what is now southern Arizona, form the core of the 360-acre Tumacacori National Historic Park.

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The ancestral Sinagua people built this 110-room pueblo on a commanding site: a ridgeline 120 feet above the Verde River floodplain near modern Clarkdale, Arizona.

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The Sinagua people built cliff dwellings in the 350-foot deep Walnut Canyon near Flagstaff, Arizona around 1100 A.D., abandoning them perhaps 150 years later for unknown reasons.

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A number of lakes, almost 700 miles of rivers and streams, and is both lush and rugged.

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When thinking of Arizona, snow-capped mountain peaks don't readily come to mind, but this is exactly what you can explore in the winter at this national forest.

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Situated on more than 1 million acres of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico, the Coronado National Forest has 8 designated wilderness regions, and an excellent network of campgrounds.

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There are 3 major sections to the 1.6-million acre Kaibab National Forest, some of which has borders along the south and north rims of the Grand Canyon.

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In the mountains between Flagstaff and Phoenix, the Prescott National Forest is home to more than 1.2 million acres of land in Arizona.

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The largest national forest in Arizona, the Tonto National Forest has low spots in the Sonoran Desert, mountain peaks that rise 7,400 feet high, and canyonlands, lakes, rivers, and streams.

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Home to rare naturally regenerated cottonwood-willow forests, which brings in numerous colorful Neotropical migratory birds from Central and South America.

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Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge is a semidesert grassland that is home to threatened and endangered plants and animals.

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Seven mountain ranges with wide, bountiful valleys full of 275 different species of wildlife are featured at Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

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Cibola National Wildlife Refuge protects the marshes, backwaters, and meanders that are home to migratory waterfowl during the winter.

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The 37,515 acre Havasu National Wildlife Refuge offers a wide variety of activities for active visitors.

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The area protects 30 miles of landscape and wetlands beside the lower Colorado River.

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The Kofa National Wildlife Refuge was established to protect desert bighorn sheep, but is also home to a surprisingly large number of water birds (unusual for a desert landscape) thanks to its many waterholes.

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Surrounded by the Swisshelm Mountains to the north and the Pedregosa Mountains in the south and east, Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge is a year-round home to wildlife.

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Located on the U.S. and Mexican border in Arizona, the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge landscape includes linear mountain ranges and basins.

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Established in 1972, the Hohokam Pima National Monument protects an ancient Hohokam village known as "Snaketown": there is no public access to this National Monument.

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Agua Fria National Monument was granted monument status in early 2000.

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The Ironwood Forest National Monument, established in early 2000, covers more than 130,000 acres of land in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.

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Covering large areas of Arizona, California, and northwestern Mexico, the Sonoran Desert National Monument is lauded as the most biologically diverse desert in North America.

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Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument spans over 290,000 acres and includes the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon.

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The Arizona National Scenic Trail is a National Scenic Trail from Mexico to Utah that traverses the whole north-south length of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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The Old Spanish Trail (Spanish: Viejo Sendero Espanol) is a historical trade route that connected the northern New Mexico settlements of (or near) Santa Fe, New Mexico with those of Los Angeles, California and southern California.