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Mount Graham (called in Nnee biyati' (Western Apache) Dził Nchaa Sí'an - ′Big Seated Mountain′) is a mountain in Graham County, Arizona, United States, approximately 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Tucson. The mountain reaches 10,724 feet (3,269 m) in height. It is the highest elevation in Graham County, Coronado National Forest and the ...
The Catalina Highway, officially the General Hitchcock Highway, is the popular name for a Forest Highway and scenic route located in Pima County in southern Arizona.Also known as the Sky Island Scenic Byway, the Mount Lemmon Highway and Arizona Forest Highway 39, the Catalina Highway is the only paved roadway providing access to the resort village of Summerhaven as well as various recreational ...
Former. ← I-8. → I-15. In the U.S. state of Arizona, Interstate 10 ( I‑10 ), the major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States Sun Belt, runs east from California, enters Arizona near the town of Ehrenberg and continues through Phoenix and Tucson and exits at the border with New Mexico near San Simon.
Tucson station. / 32.22306°N 110.96667°W / 32.22306; -110.96667. Tucson station is an Amtrak train depot in Tucson, Arizona, served three times a week by the combined Sunset Limited / Texas Eagle train.
Tucson (/ ˈ t uː s ɒ n / TOO-son; O'odham: Cuk Ṣon) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.It is the second-largest city in Arizona behind Phoenix, with a population of 542,629 in the 2020 United States census, while the population of the entire Tucson metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is 1,043,433.
USGS Tucson. Sentinel Peak is a 2,897 ft (900 m) peak in the Tucson Mountains southwest of downtown Tucson, Arizona, United States. The valley's first inhabitants grew crops at the mountain's base, along the Santa Cruz River. The name "Tucson" is derived from the O'odham Cuk Ṣon ( [tʃʊk ʂɔːn] ), meaning " [at the] base of the black [hill]".
1973. Opened. 1993. Location. The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the southern United States . The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River at the Bill Williams Wildlife Refuge south portion of Lake Havasu near Parker into central and southern Arizona. CAP is managed and operated by the ...
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre (40 ha) zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952. Located just west of Tucson, Arizona, it features two miles (3.2 km) of walking paths traversing 21 acres (8.5 ha) of desert landscape. It is one of the most visited attractions in Southern ...