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Bordering southwest and south is the Mogollon Plateau, and on the plateau's south border the Mogollon Rim, the north border of the Arizona transition zone. Owing to the strong rain shadow of the Mogollon Rim, the Painted Desert has a cold desert climate ( Köppen BWk ), with hot, dry summers and chilly (though virtually snow-free) winters.
It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.” [9] The Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum was established on April 1, 1924, with the hiring of its first employees, Dr. Franklin Crider and Frederick Gibson, from the University of Arizona.
The next most populous county is Pima County, which had a 2010 census population of 980,263. The county seat of Pima County is Tucson, where nearly all of the population is concentrated. Combined, nearly 80% of Arizona residents live in either Maricopa County or Pima County, even though the two counties make up 16% of Arizona's total area.
White Sands National Park in New Mexico features a beautiful landscape of white dunes, with some towering up to 60 feet high. Uniquely composed of gypsum crystals, it is the largest gypsum desert ...
Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands.
Navajo Upper Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon in the American Southwest, on Navajo land east of Lechee, Arizona.It includes six separate, scenic slot canyon sections on the Navajo Reservation, referred to as Upper Antelope Canyon (or The Crack), Rattle Snake Canyon, Owl Canyon, Mountain Sheep Canyon, Canyon X [4] and Lower Antelope Canyon (or The Corkscrew). [2]
Constructed between 1937 and 1938, this restaurant has been called one of the most beautiful McDonald's buildings in the world. Built in 1983, the Rock-N-Roll McDonald's in Chicago was known ...
The Grand Canyon [a] is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).