Prescott Valley, AZ

Watson Lake

 

Fain Lake-Lynx Creek Mining

 

 

 

Lynx Lake

 

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

The university library has the world's largest to-scale collection of miniature airplane models.  The John W. Kalusa Miniature Aircraft Collection is comprised of over 5,829 pre-flight, private, commercial, and military and rocket aircraft models.  Each model is carved out of balsa wood, using a razor blade.  The models are built to a 1/18 inch-to-foot scale. In 2003 the Kalusa collection was inducted into the Guinness World Records for the largest collection of handmade aeroplanes in the world.



Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coolidge, AZ

Casa Grande is an ancient building from the Hohokam Indians.  The building stood four stories high and 60 feet long with a platform mound filling the first floor.  It is the largest known structure of the Ancestral People of the Sonoran Desert.  It was built from caliche, a concrete-like mix of sand, clay, and limestone.  It took 3,000 tons to build the "Great House".  Very fascinating place!!!!

 

These cactus are BIG!!!

 

 

Great House

 

 Other structures

 

Ball Court

 

 

 

 

 

Apache Trail, AZ

The Apache Trail is a loop through the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix.  The trail served as a stage coach and freight wagon route form Mesa to Globe.  Indians, cowboys, and miners have all roamed the mysterious Superstition Mountains.  Jacob Waltz's Lost Dutchman Mine is still waiting to be discovered in a hidden canyon.

 

Chain fruit cholla looks like a bunch of grapes hanging from the cactus.

Twenty Stamp Mill

 

Historic Apacheland Movie Ranch was moved to this site

 

Tortilla Flat

 
Dollar bills are taped everywhere

 

Canyon Lake

 

 Goldfield Ghost Town

In the 1860's, Goldfield was a boomtown with 50 working mines in the district