San Francisco Peaks – Various Perspectives

Cover image for blog post titled San Francisco Peaks - Various Perspectives. Northern Arizona Photo Essay for Krista's LadyBug Adventures (www.ladybugblog.com)

Northern Arizona Photo Essay Towering over Flagstaff and visible from many vantage points in northern Arizona, the San Francisco Peaks are the remains of a lone, extinct stratovolcano with a collapsed caldera surrounded by six summits. The volcano was active 1.4 million and 400,000 years ago and the original volcanic peak may have once reached […]

Grand Canyon Railway & Hotel

Image of train engine from Grand Canyon Railway

Exploring Arizona Attractions Before there was a national park, there was a train that went to the Grand Canyon. For over a century, majestic locomotives and train cars have carried passengers from Williams, Arizona to the south rim of the Grand Canyon sixty miles away. Today, the Grand Canyon Railway and Hotel keeps this tradition […]

Desert Oasis in the Middle of Nowhere

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Dateland, Arizona | Interstate 8 at Milepost 67 Located about halfway between Yuma and Gila Bend on Interstate 8 in the Arizona desert, the small town of Dateland has been a welcome site to weary travelers for three generations and counting. Established in the early 1920s as a water stop along the railroad lines, Dateland is in […]