Category: Arizona...

going swimming or bodysurfing in Biosphere 2's manmade ocean
riding in a colorful hot-air balloon over the Arizona dessert, followed by a New Age escape in Sedona
The Phoenician in Scottsdale -- its restaurants, pools, tennis, golf, spa -- among the rich colors and textures of the U.S. Southwest
Arizona's name comes from arizonac, Papago Indian for 'place of the young spring'.
hot, low-elevation desert covered in cacti and mesquite contrasted with the largest stand of evergreen ponderosa pine trees in the world at elevations of 4,000 feet
the manmade lakes making Arizona have more shoreline and boats per capita than almost any other state
a land of picturesque ghost towns and mining camps, isolated ranches, Indian reservations, and bucolic cotton and citrus farms
Arizona contains some of the oldest records of human occupation of the United States. Relics of material culture show humans lived in Arizona for more than 25,000 years.
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Arizona was the last of the contiguous 48 states to be admitted (1012).
the rock of the inner gorge of Grand Canyon is 2 billion years old, some of the oldest exposed rock on Earth - but the huge abyss is relatively young since the Colorado River began chiseling it out only 5 million years ago
True desert covers less than one percent of Arizona.
More telescopes (30+) are located near Tucson than any other U.S. location
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