The name refers to two men in the exploration party of Samuel Black in 1824 who deserted at this location during an expedition to find the headwaters of the Finlay, which is the North Fork of the Peace River. Deserters Creek and Deserters Peak are in the same area and has the same name-origin.
Tucked away in the far southeast corner of Arizona, Portal snugs up against the bulk of the Chiricahua Mountains, at the mouth of Cave CreekCanyon... Cave Creek Canyon Arizona things to do. Cave Creek Canyon is a place of astonishing beauty.
See the magical moment that water returns to a parched SabinoCanyon... Cyr, who hikes Sabino often, heard that another hiker had seen water high in the canyon ... “Sabino Canyon is truly an oasis … a ribbon of forest in the desert.
canyons, deserts, mountains that demanded safeguarding long before anyone thought to destroy them ... His most audacious play came in the MojaveDesert, where he orchestrated the acquisition of more than half a million acres from a railroad spinoff.
The Lower San Pedro RiverWatershed is one of the largest unfragmented landscapes in Arizona, second only to the GrandCanyon region, and the last remaining intact desert river system in southern Arizona.
Chuckwalla is 624,000 acres of federal land, mostly overseen by the Bureau of Land Management where the Colorado and Mojave Deserts come together in a mix of scenic mountains and canyons that is home...
... of scenic mountains and canyons that is home to bighorn sheep, desert tortoises and chuckwalla lizards ... People stand in the desert along Box CanyonRoad in the eastern Coachella Valley on Tuesday, Jan.
The EatonFire ignited on January 7, in the wooded hills of Eaton Canyon, just east of Altadena. The winds were howling that night as dry desert air flowed into the area ... exploded across the canyon.