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Blue River, a Place to Rest Mind and Body BLUE RIVER, A PLACE TO REST MIND AND BODY arizonahighways.com SEPTEMBER 2003 SEPTEMBER 2003 page 46 55 GENE PERRET’S WIT STOP Despite our author’s fun with the names of rock formations, his hat is off to Sedona’s natural beauty. 44 HUMOR 2 LETTERS AND E-MAIL 46 DESTINATION Tonto Natural Bridge The power of moving water formed this massive travertine bridge, which arches over seasonal Pine Creek near Payson. 3 TAKING THE OFF-RAMP COVER/PORTFOLIO 24 Explore Arizona oddities, attractions and pleasures. The Secrets of 54 EXPERIENCE ARIZONA Sedona’s Red Rocks Enjoy concerts at the Grand Canyon’s South Rim; learn A distinctive landscape captivates visitors with about railroad history at a commemoration in Williams; its primitive raw beauty. get in tune with the seasons and the lore of the autumnal equinox at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff; and see the diversity of Hopi artwork in Sedona. MOUNTAINS 6 49 ALONG THE WAY Kofa Country Camelback Cemetery is a restful place where untold The Kofa Mountains hold forth as mighty stories from the past lie in peace. neighbors to Yuma and the Colorado River in Arizona’s stark, extreme-desert southwestern TRAVEL 50 BACK ROAD ADVENTURE corner. 40 Point of Pines Stress Relief on ‘The Blue’ A fall trip to Point of Pines on the San Carlos Apache [THIS PAGE] Ponderosa pine trees Reservation yields the sounds of bugling elk and ARCHAEOLOGY Breathe in the air, take in the scenery and relax beside misty Woods Canyon Lake to the max on the Blue River in east-central in the Apache-Sitgreaves sightings of waterbirds. 14 National Forests dwarf Arizona. The Hidden Hohokam fishermen eager to try their luck 56 HIKE OF THE MONTH at sunrise. NICK BEREZENKO Under the hills and modern structures of [FRONT COVER] Aglow in the light Sandys Canyon Trail urban Phoenix lie the relics of an ancient FOCUS ON NATURE of sunset, Sedona’s Cathedral Sandys Canyon Trail winds Indian community, a lost civilization that Rock towers over Lower Oak 3 miles round-trip into 38 Creek at Red Rock Crossing. See once thrived along the canals. Sharp-eyed Hunting Spider story, page 24. Walnut Creek south Grand Canyon The green lynx spider uses its keen eyesight ROBERT G. McDONALD of Flagstaff and meets National Park [BACK COVER] Brian Beck of the Arizona Trail. MUSEUMS to stalk prey. Tucson rests in the cool spray Museum of Northern and lush greenery near Waterfall Arizona (Flagstaff) Sandys Canyon 18 Trail at Tonto Natural Bridge. Red Rock Celebrating 75 Years Country Tonto Natural See story, page 46. Bridge In Flagstaff, there’s pride in keeping a regional NICK BEREZENKO Point of sense of place alive as the Museum of Northern Pines Blue Range Kofa PHOENIX Primitive Area Arizona observes a milestone birthday. POINTS OF Mountains INTEREST FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE TUCSON and e-mail takingthe SEPTEMBER 2003 VOL. 79, NO. 9 Publisher WIN HOLDEN Arizona oddities, attractions and pleasures Editor ROBERT J. EARLY Senior Editor BETH DEVENY off-ramp Managing Editor RANDY SUMMERLIN Research Editor MARY PRATT Editorial Administrator CONNIE BOCH GARDEN TERA’S Administrative Assistant NIKKI KIMBEL Accurate Photographs back to the Hopi Indians approximately 15 pounds Historic District. THIS MONTH IN Director of Photography PETER ENSENBERGER If I had not personally seen the grandeur of the of the red iron carbonate mud used in tribal Photography Editor RICHARD MAACK Designed in and ARIZONA Southwest, I would have thought your religious ceremonies. Art Director MARY WINKELMAN VELGOS around a yellow photographs were somehow enhanced to bring STEPHEN J. PAVLAK, Atascadero, CA Deputy Art Director BARBARA GLYNN DENNEY 1914 bungalow, the Deputy Art Director BILLIE JO BISHOP out color and detail. Your photographers are garden shop caters to desert Art Assistant PAULY HELLER The U.S. Army indeed to be commended. Loyal Reader Map Designer KEVIN KIBSEY Downtown dwellers wanting to add color to 1867 delivers the first Your stories are likewise superb. The article As we prepare for retirement and a very fixed Arizona Highways Books their lives. Tera’s Garden boasts triweekly mail ® Desert Bounty from the East to ”Frontier Medicine” (April ’03) was interesting. income, we want your staff to know you’ll be the WitWorks Books plants from the world’s deserts as Editor BOB ALBANO Tucson. We have come a long way in 50 or so years. “last to go!” Book and record clubs all take a back Associate Editor EVELYN HOWELL reating beauty in the well as local species and a bounty Associate Editor PK PERKIN MCMAHON ANN M. GREgg, Quartz Hill, CA seat to your publication, which I’ve been reading heart of the city.” This of native wildflower seeds. “Plants for about 60 years. Production Director CINDY MACKEY is the mission of that are in harmony with the A Territorial Production Coordinator KIM ENSENBERGER “ 1870 C militia led by State Mammal E.A. DEWVEALL, Phoenix Promotions Art Director RONDA JOHNSON Tera Vessels, Arizona master surroundings” is how Vessels Webmaster VICKY SNOW Gov. A.P.K. I read with interest Gene Perret’s humorous gardener and creator of describes them. Safford returns ”A Tall Tail Tale” (“Wit Stop,” April ‘03) about Vacation Guide Marketing Director Tera’s Garden, located in Information: (602) 253-4744; from the PATRICIA POWERS-ZERMEÑO the Arizona state mammal, the ringtail, or I would like to say how much we enjoy Arizona downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt www.terasgarden.net. mountains after NEWT GLASS a 26-day hunt cacomistle. Old-timers (like me) from Arizona Highways magazine. We are planning to take our Circulation Director HOLLY CARNAHAN for Apaches have never heard of a cacomistle. We called this vacation in Arizona this year. We feel the magazine Finance Director ROBERT M. STEELE between the Santa Cruz and animal, as Mr. Perret mentioned, a miner’s cat is very informative, and our vacation will be much Fulfillment Director VALERIE J. BECKETT the Indian Wars, mining, cowboys, San Pedro rivers. or a ringtail. more interesting because of it. Information Technology Manager Western Bookshop, archaeology, anthropology, lawmen, The militia did CINDY BORMANIS not spot a DONALD J. JUSTESEN, Price, UT MARY MaaRSEN-KEIM, The Netherlands desperados, women of the West single Apache. FOR CUSTOMER INQUIRIES a Thriving Tradition and the Civil War. OR TO ORDER BY PHONE: Playing With Fire Gene Perret’s “Wit Stop” about the state mammal Ghost Town Call toll-free: (800) 543-5432 ookstore owner Aaron Information: (480) 945-8811; made us remember the old days. I have read Arizona Highways for many years and In the Phoenix area or outside the U.S., Cohen sells stories about www.guidon.com. ewt Grover continues to Call (602) 712-2000 1890Police are called We lived on Sabino Canyon Road in particularly enjoyed the April 2003 issue’s Western America and the ignore good advice: “Don’t to restore order Or visit us online at: B after a Tucson in 1948. We often put out food for spotlight on the Ruby Road drive in “Back Road arizonahighways.com Civil War, but this word warrior play with fire.” Almost any Democratic For Corporate or Trade Sales N animals. One day my mother and I saw a Adventure.” I had to chuckle, though, when also has a few of his own tales to day of the week, you can find him Territorial Call (602) 712-2050 Move Over, cacomistle in our back yard. We didn’t know you described the ghost town of Ruby as “quietly tell. Cohen and his wife, Ruth, surrounded by flames and furnaces Convention E-MAIL “LETTERS TO THE EDITOR”: Elephants meeting gets what it was. My mother went to the library and decaying” in the hills of the Coronado National [email protected] opened Guidon Books on Old at Newt Glass, his Scottsdale “hot out of hand in finally, after some research, identified the animal. Forest. Just what sort of noise does decay Regular Mail: Main Street in Scottsdale, against he next time you call your neighbor shop,” creating handblown glass Phoenix. I guess the animal’s population has really usually make? Editor the advice of neighboring retailers. Ta birdbrain he may thank you. products. His chandeliers, wall 2039 W. Lewis Ave. increased in the last 55 years to make it the BRUCE TENNANT, Long Beach, CA Phoenix, AZ 85009 The retailers said a Western Scientists are learning that the Clark’s sconces and pendant lights state mammal. nutcracker may have one of the most decorate some of the state’s top Adobe Governor Janet Napolitano 1894 buildings in BARBRA SEDORY, La Grange, IL Reading With Dad Director, Department of Transportation amazing memories in the animal nightclubs and dining spots, Willcox I am 11 years old and enjoy reading Arizona Victor M. Mendez kingdom. and collectors nationwide own crumble after a cloudburst on Visiting Sipapu Highways with my dad. Every time we get your ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION BOARD The gray-and-black crow cousins his works. Chairman Ingo Radicke, Globe Mount Graham Your article “Searching for Sipapu” (April ’03) magazine, he flips through the pages and points Vice Chairman Bill Jeffers, Holbrook labor from August to December “Throughout history, people in the Pinaleno brought back memories of my second trip to the out places that he has visited. Thank you for Members Dallas “Rusty” Gant, Wickenburg collecting 30,000 pine seeds. That have been fascinated with glass,” Mountains Richard “Dick” Hileman, Lake Havasu City sweeps the area, Little Colorado River canyon. I spent two weeks in bringing a little bit of Arizona to me. James W. Martin, Willcox would be impressive enough. But then, explains Grover.
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