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While Carefree and Cave Creek are today a home for upper-income retirees and an enclave for artists and entrepreneurs, the first inhabitants of the area surrounding Black Mountain were Native Americans known as the Hohokam, who appeared about 750 A.D. They were an agrarian society of hunters and gatherers who also used irrigation to maintain crops.
Carefree was the long-time home of Southwestern Studios, originally built in 1968 as Fred Graham Studios by actor, stunt man, and Arizona Film Commissioner Fred Graham. The sprawling 160-acre (0.65 km 2 ) desert property adjacent to North Scottsdale featured three state-of-the-art soundstages, edit bays, 35mm screening room, make-up, production ...
Columbia Sussex began operation as Columbia Development in 1972 with the construction of a single Days Inn location in Richwood, KY. Rapid expansion followed and by 1978 the company was renamed Columbia Sussex and was the largest Days Inn franchisee with 14 locations many with restaurants named after the founder's wife, Marty.
Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms covering 5,800 square feet (540 m 2) of ground. Giant Rock is the largest freestanding boulder in North America and is purported to be the largest free standing boulder in the world. [1]
The most striking aspect of the boulders is their unusually large size and spherical shape, with a distinct bimodal size distribution. Approximately one-third of the boulders range in size from about 0.5 to 1.0 metre (1.6 to 3.3 ft) in diameter, the other two-thirds from 1.5 to 2.2 metres (4.9 to 7.2 ft).
Jack Frost–Big Boulder is a resort with two separate ski areas. It is located in Kidder Township, Pennsylvania , in the Pocono Mountains region of Northeastern Pennsylvania . In 2019, the resort, which had been owned and operated by Peak Resorts , was purchased by Vail Resorts .
Copper Mountain is a mountain and ski resort located in Summit County, Colorado, about 75 miles (120 km) [1] west of Denver on Interstate 70. The resort has 2,465 acres (3.9 sq mi; 10.0 km 2) of in-bounds terrain under lease from the U.S. Forest Service, White River National Forest, Dillon Ranger District.
Sunland-Tujunga / t ə ˈ h ʌ ŋ ɡ ə / is a Los Angeles city neighborhood within the Crescenta Valley and Verdugo Mountains. [1] Sunland and Tujunga began as separate settlements and today are linked through a single police station, branch library, neighborhood council, chamber of commerce, city council district, and high school. [2]