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South Mountain Park. Coordinates: 33°20′10″N 112°4′10″W. Monument at the entrance of the South Mountain Park. South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona, is the largest municipal park in the United States, [1] and one of the largest urban parks in North America and in the world. It has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride.
Dobbins Lookout at the summit of South Mountain. One of many petroglyphs in South Mountain Park. Dobbins Lookout is the highest point accessible by trail at 2,330 feet (710 meters). Alta Ridge is the ridge on the eastern end of Maricopa peak. Telegraph Pass is the gap between South Mountain to the east and Goat Hill to the West.
State Route 202 Spur (Arizona Spur 202) is an unsigned state highway located in Phoenix. It begins at the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) at exit 5. It continues west, intersecting the Hohokam Expressway (SR 143) and ends at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. This is an unsigned route, marked by westbound exit signs from Loop 202 as Sky ...
Right now, Washington Monument State Park is the main place to go for information on the South Mountain battlefield. But that will shift to the inn when the center is opened, Milbourne said.
Laveen Community Council bumper sticker By 1941, the Cheathams' dairy operation had outgrown their farm, so they bought 360 acres (1.5 km 2) of land south of Baseline Road, between 43rd and 51st Avenues. While constructing the dairy, the Cheathams had to clear the site of mesquite and rattlesnakes. Once complete, it was one of the larger dairies in Arizona and used registered Holstein cattle ...
Mystery Castle. Coordinates: 33°21′30″N 112°03′48″W. Mystery Castle. Mystery Castle is located in the city of Phoenix, Arizona, in the foothills of South Mountain Park. It was built in the 1930s by Boyce Luther Gulley for his daughter Mary Lou Gulley. After learning he had tuberculosis, Gulley moved from Seattle to the Phoenix area ...
Scorpion Gulch. Located in South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona, Scorpion Gulch was built as a home and store by William Lunsford. Lunsford's store sold curios, Indigenous-made items, sodas, and candy. It was still in operation in 1966, when Lunsford was 75. [1] In the 1970s, it became a bar. According to the Phoenix Historic Property ...
The highest point in the immediate area (just outside the Dolly Sods Wilderness area in the Roaring Plains West Wilderness) is Mount Porte Crayon (4,770 ft or 1,450 m). The summit area around Mount Porte Crayon is the largest flat-topped plateau in Eastern North America containing 5.5 square miles (14 km 2 ) above 4,500 ft (1,400 m) elevation.