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List of mountain ranges of California; List of mountain ranges of Nevada; List of mountain ranges of the Lower Colorado River Valley; List of mountains and hills of Arizona by height; List of rivers of Arizona; List of valleys of Arizona; Madrean Sky Islands/ Sky island, a biome region of SE Ariz, SW New Mex, and Northern Mexico proper.
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is located on the west flank of the Tucson Mountains. Much of the range is protected by Saguaro National Park and Tucson Mountain Park, run by Pima County. Old Tucson Studios are located just west of the Tucson Mountains. Tucson Mountain Park was established in April 1929.
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The range was completed by April 1942, shortly after the United States joined in the war, and was called the Sahuarita Bombing & Gunnery Range. It was located approximately twenty miles southeast of Tucson and about two miles east of Sahuarita. The range itself spanned 27,045-acres and consisted of multiple large round targets made of stone.
Looking down toward Tucson from Gates Pass, 1940. Car is a 1938 Ford. Gates Pass is a mountain pass along the crest of the Tucson Mountains. The road through the pass is a scenic route west of Tucson, Arizona. The road from the east is West Anklam Road which merges with West Speedway Boulevard in the city just east of North Camino De Oeste.
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 "the base [of the mountain] is black".
The regional major and minor mountain regions called Madrean Sky Islands, the sky islands region of southeast Arizona, extreme southwest New Mexico, and northern Sonora, Mexico, the north extension of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the western cordillera of northern and western Mexico.
Pusch Ridge was home to one of the last populations of Desert Bighorn Sheep in Arizona, none have been observed since 2005. In a controversial effort to re-establish the Bighorn Sheep population, on November 18, 2013, thirty-one Bighorns were released by Arizona Game and Fish officers near Pusch Ridge, the first in a series of three planned releases totaling about 100 animals over the next two ...