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A Summer Vacation in Arizona JUNE 1959 FORTY CENTS IN THIS ISSUE: ASummer Vacation In Arizona VOL. XXXV NO. 6 JUNE 1959 You can't always tell by the cool calculations of the RAYMOND CARLSON, Editor calendar or the bobbing babble of the thermometer. The GEORGE M. A VEY, Art Editor testimony of the wayward sun is not always reliable. You JAMES E . STEVENS, Business Manager awaken one fine morning and for some indefinable reason LEGEND you know summer is just around the corner. There is a languor in the shadows and a soft sleepiness in the air that ARIZONA'S TIM BERED TREASURE 2 FORESTS OF STATE PRODUCE RICHES bespeak summer's approach. There is a drowsiness in the IN I.UMB E, R, Rf:C REATJO NAL ACTIVITIES. gossip of the green, green leaves caressed by the soft, THE PARADOX OF A LA\'A FLOW 8 warm breeze. You know that spring has had her Ring VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN NORTHERN ARIZONA CHANGED ENRICHED LAND. and another season is getting ready to cavort over the AN ARIZONA S ui\ Ii\TER VACATION landscape. //~-- ~.-.....,, ~ - JF YOU PL AN YO UR VACATION W"ELL, YOU'LL HAVE ONE COOL AND CAREFREE. we afe -n'i uch conce'_r.n'ea with summer this issue and SNOW IN JuLY 28 our p/ ges are an invitatiot~ ''.1} y ou to plan a cool and WHCN YOU CLIMB SA N FRANCISCO PEAKS careffee vacation in, our state.·, AiJ 'Of Northern Arizona ' , ,_ •. • IN J ULY YOU RUN INTO SURPRISES. is a huge sm:nmer v,ac~ti911 playgrouh~, where the scenery LONG MEADOW RANCH 34 is superb aricF1th.~' )-v:i::i:ther admirable -' for those who like Tms RANCH IN YAVAPAI COUNTY IS ONE //;') \ . OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN ARIZONA. the noma1ic ,role_' f}f v~3:yidering about. Fi.·om._ Monument Valley to, Oak ~ 1e\:k, ' fro'm Canyon de Chelly to Lake PAUL FANNIN Governor of Arizona Mead (inc-luclinf~qf cou~0se; 1!1ajestic Grand Canyon) you ARIZONA HIGHWAY COMMISSION h~ve st:' r!erx 'to ~,)i(h~ ,f<e''.: the most tired old eyes. ('/• : '~ .. ( 1¥'• ,v · ~ L. F. Quinn, Chairman . Miami ,... ·,' yV€ call ycn,i· ·t: att~ntion~-to our extensive foi'est areas Frank L. Christensen, Vice-Chairman . Flagstaff '·c.,. I · 1 ,,,_.~ '· , -,-,, . Milton L. Reay, Member . Safford in tb,\'t 1l'o1):hern and ea~tet=' ortions of our state. As you John J. Bugg, Member . Florence wi);J:' r-eaelily'"see, 9nrS'i~ n~:tt s~i:f,<i'5 fy a desert state. On .the ,vilbur F. Asbury, M.ember . Phoenix vVm. E . Willey, State Hwy. Engineer Phoenix COJ1tr'a~:y,'. ap d }!· {f is ~p\1r-desire, you can spend the_ J ustin Herman, Secretary . Phoenix en.~1;<:;•s\f mef't ,.,a ~de ··t1f hrough the largest ponderosa ARIZONA H1c1-1wAYS is published monthly by the Arizona Highway pin<l,/)?,~i¢.s/ i~x;h~ ,:()niteg~ t~( es ,and all the joys of high, , Department a few miles _north of the confluence of the Gila and cool feint rs. wylr be yours.' a .- ' • ,,1' ! . ? I I• , <' .:.,; '/~ Salt in Arizona. Address: ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, Phoenix, Arizona. )f .-". ~1.- '1 . $3 .50 per year in U.S. and possessions; $4-50 elsewhere; 40 cents , Iiy old,etl day!,\ J ari_g ,not; to,6 long ag_'O ). ');Oll' couldn't / I I'' ,,, ·\ ' i, . J each. Second Class Postage paid at Phoenix and at additional ,fiod , a, 9, 9n~ fi ~e s;t1mn~er v~cationer in the desert regions mailing offices under Act of March 3, 1879. Copyrighted, 1959, by the Arizona Highway Department. , o'f': Ariz_,,6 na1 i y 3n _' ·a~ch~d a-] 'day . But,'how 'times l1;ave A !low five weeks for change of address. ·:c hanged! NI tbe :w~y"-'fio i]J Yu;na ·to ,W1ck~11bu,rg, hun­ Be sure to send in the old as well as the new address. 'ai·e'ds of_.,; inafe'fo ,w ith{ qj¼:_con.oitioqed .rooms and , ec ol, ~115 inviting swim111ing" pools attract . s1.1mmer ,visitor, ,, for ~ '\ ' ~ . ' . ,· t ' ' ' FRONT COVER delightful vi ~tf to: t !1.e su_n c?u,ri.try~, y-~_en t bt;;. sun. f't:trna ces "SUNFLOWERS IN THE FOREST" BY HUBERT A. LOW­ are_ stqk.ed to ~their f~llest. su·mmel' is 'the '. 'off season" in NIAN. 4x5 Brand 17 View camera; E ktachrome daylight film ; between f.16 and f.22 1/wth sec.; 5" Ektar lens; late summer; th_e_ ~e~e·~':,. ~?u~1J:ry and that zn,eans"' ':off s~ason,,..'....pcices, _ bright sunlight, mid-morning; ASA rating Weston 10. A forest , ,v 11 ~J1__2_11 tl1 en}2_~ly¼~ ean _p rov:e'\ 1y~st;ittrac;t1v:e. - - ·· - scene taken on U.S. 89 about midway betw een U.S. 66 junction - ·. We ~vercofoe sum.. J.C ~ ~ 1d ; tv_e ,.- 'you, de:1r and the entrance to Sunset Crater, near Flagstaff. The flowers efoorn,e arc sunflowers, and the trees are ponderosa pine. The slow shutter friends, and may your vacation · ce 21 Jost pieasant. _ speed was used to obtain a great depth of focus, necessitating shooting between breezes so that the flowers were not waving too merrily. The Flagstaff area, in the forested higher elevations of Northern Arizona, is blessed with generous rainfall during the summer months. The late summer wildflower display is generally lavish. COLOR CLASSICS FROM ARIZONA HIGHWAYS OPPOSITE PAGE This Issue "WOODS CANYON LAKE" BY RALPH A. FISHER, SR. Uni\-crsal Univlex I camera; Kodak Ektachrome 120 film; f.16 at 35nnn. slides in 2" mounts, 1 to 15 slides, 40c each; 16 to 49 slides, I/50th sec.; Universal Anastigmat 75 mm. f.5.5 lens; July; clear 35c each; 50 or nzore, 3 for $1.00. Catalogue of pre-viow slides ismed with some big clouds; ASA rating 32. Photograph of Woods available on request. Address: ARIZONA H!GHT,V AYS, Phoenix, Canyon Lake, fifty-acre trout fishing lake near Chevelon, on the Ari::.ona. Mogollon Rim above Kohl's Ranch. About 45 miles from Payson, WJ\ll-8 Sunflowers in the Forest, cov. 1; L-46 Woods Canyon Lake, Arizona, on good graded roadway. Trees about the lake are aspen cov. 2; GC-69 South Canyon-East Rim of the Kaibab Plateau, cov. and ponderosa pine. Boats are light aluminum metal. No motors 3; WL-44 A Summer Day on the Kaibab, cov. 4; R-13 Road permitted on Woods Canyon Lake. Trout planted by the Arizona Through the Forest, p. 17; V-42 J\llogollon Rim Vista, p. 18 ; FS-19 Game and Fish Department, the Hatchery Division. Woods Fishing Time- Lake lvlary, p. 19U; L-47 Summer Day- Foxboro Canyon Lake first opened to fishing in August last year. Limit Lake, p. 19L; SF-11 Panorama-San Francisco Peaks, p. 20-21U; eight fish per adult, four per child. This lake is one of many SF-1 2 The World Below from San Francisco Peaks, p. 20-2 1L; small lakes being built in the mountain regions of the state by L-48 Invitation to White Horse Lake, p. 22U; M0-6 Higl1 the Game and Fisl1 Department to offer more fishing and recre­ Country-Eastern Arizona, p. 22L; L-49 Near Lakeside Resort, p. ational opportunities for vacationers. 2 3; vVM-9 Deep Summer on the Road to J\ilaverick, p. 24- DA VID M Ul::NCH Summer scene-high nwuntains JOSEF MUENCH Mountain vie'Lv-Northern Arizo11a Maverick, Arizona By Vivien Keatley rizona's midriff is far from bare. If trepid General George who ended the Indian Wars with peculiarly charming Kaibab squirrel), the Apache (most­ you scurry across the much-used the respect of Indians, has been gobbled up by other ly in New Mexico) and the Gila (with Silver City, New southern routes, you may think we national forests. But we're still left with all of six, and Mexico as headquarters), and you have Arizona's his­ haven't enough wood to make a to­ part of two, within the state's borders. Their roll call , tory-and her forests. tem pole. But that's because you've sounds our history: In one of them, at every season of the year, there is bypassed our r r -million-acre vaca­ Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's expedition of r 540 the ideal vacation and recreation for everyone who seeks tionland, our national forests. With is suitably commemorated by the only national forest the land of room enough, and space enough. more than a hundred species of trees, these stretch from touching Mexico's border. Its 1,386,000 acres are scat­ Snows at higher elevations lure those who love winter the "Strip" north of Grand Canyon south and east. tered in disconnected areas from Rodeo, New Mexico to sports, and feel happiest when tired, after a day's great One tree, the ponderosa pine, grows in a single, con­ Tucson, including Douglas, Patagonia and Nogales. exertions, and stretched out before an open fireplace tinuous stand nearly 300 miles long, from 20 to 60 miles Zane Grey immortalized the Tonto. The Sitgreaves filled with roaring pine logs. wide, from north of the Canyon well into New Mexico, was named for Captain Lorenzo who carried-the-message­ Spring weaves a lace mantilla of pale green for the through the northern and central part of the state. It to-Garcia when instructed, in r 8 5 r, to "pursue the Zuni white-stemmed aspens of the Kaibab, a halo of yellow grows at a higher elevation.
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