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more than 1,400 animals, their 2 The Apache Trail
movement controlled by banks Road map C4. @ n Globe
and canals rather than fences. Chamber of Commerce, 1360 N. Broad
A Safari Train provides a St., Globe (928) 425-4495 or Visit
narrated tour of the zoo. Phoenix, 125 N. 2nd St. (877) 225-
5749. ∑ visitphoenix.com
Y Desert Botanical Garden
1201 N. Galvin Parkway. Tel (480) 941- Heading east from Phoenix,
1225. Open May–Sep: 7am–8pm Hwy 60 cuts straight across the
daily; Oct–Apr: 8am–8pm daily. desert to the suburb of Apache
Closed major public hols. & 7 8 Junction at the start of Hwy 88.
∑ dbg.org
This road then begins its
O Phoenix Zoo winding trail up into the
455 N. Galvin Parkway. Tel (602) Superstition Mountains. This
286-3800. Open early Jan–May, Sep & stretch is called the Apache Trail
Oct: 9am–5pm daily; Jun–Aug: after the Native Americans who
7am–2pm daily; Nov–early Jan: once lived here. The road is a
Cacti in the Desert Botanical Garden at 9am–4pm daily. Closed Dec 25. & wonderfully scenic mountain
Papago Park 7 ∑ phoenixzoo.org route that runs for 45 miles (72
km) up to Theodore Roosevelt
Y Papago Park + Mystery Castle Lake, which was created by the A section of the winding Apache Trail overlooking the scenic Superstition Mountains
625 N. Galvin Parkway & Van Buren St. 800 East Mineral Rd. Tel (602) 268-1581. damming of the Salt River in
Tel (602) 495-5458. ∑ phoenix.gov/ Open Oct–May: 11am–3:30pm Thu– 1911. Hwy 88 begins by climbing pottery on display at the Heard hills nearby. The silver was quickly structure that makes up
parks/trails/locations/papago-park Sun. & 8 ∑ mymysterycastle.com up into the hills and after 5 Museum (see pp82–3), built exhausted, but copper mining the Casa Grande National
Papago Park is located 6 miles Mystery Castle is possibly miles (8 km) reaches the Lost these pueblos of rock and mud thrived until 1931. Today, Globe Monument is one of the most
(10 km) east of Phoenix’s Phoenix’s most eccentric attrac- Dutchman State Park, named in the early 14th century. has an attractive historic district distinctive. Built in the early
Down town and is a popular tion. In 1927, Boyce Luther Gulley after the gold mine quarried A steep, short trail with several notable late decades of the 14th century
place to unwind, with several came to Phoenix hoping that the here by Jacob Waltz and Jacob leads up to the 19th- and early 20th- and named the “Big House” by
hiking and cycling trails, picnic warm climate would improve his Weiser in the 1870s. These two 19-room Lower Cliff century buildings. The a passing Jesuit missionary in
areas, and fishing lakes. Within ailing health. His daughter had miners cashed in a series of huge Dwelling, but the Gila County Historical 1694, this sturdy four-story
the park, the Desert Botanical loved building sand castles on gold nuggets but kept the 40-room Upper Cliff Museum outlines its structure has walls up to 4-ft
Garden is a 145-acre (59-ha) the beach, and since Phoenix location of the mine to themselves. Dwelling can be history, with displays (1.2-m) thick and is made from
area devoted to more than was so far away from the ocean, After their deaths, hundreds of visited only with a of a wide range of locally quarried caliche, a hard-
20,000 cacti and protected Gulley created a real-life fairy-tale prospectors worked these ranger on weekends mining paraphernalia. setting subsoil. Experts believe
desert flora from around the sandcastle for her. He started mountains in search of the famed from November On the south side that the holes cut in three
world. The gardens are prettiest work in 1930 and continued until gold mine but without success. to April. Mining artifacts at the Gila County of town are the of the walls were used for
in spring. Guided tours explain his death in 1945. Discarded Beyond the state park, the Historical Museum Besh-Ba-Gowah astronomical observations, but
the extraordinary life cycles of bricks and an assort ment of highway passes by several camp T Tonto National Ruins, home of the this is conjecture. The interior
the desert plants. scrapyard junk, including old car sites and through rugged Monument Salado people in the 13th and is out of bounds, but visitors
The rolling hills and lakes of parts, have been used to build terrain before reaching the tiny Hwy 188. Tel (928) 467-2241. 14th centuries. can stroll round the exterior.
the Phoenix Zoo also occupy a the structure. The 18-room hamlet of Tortilla Flat, 17 miles Open 8am–5pm daily. Closed The visitor center has some
large area of the park. The zoo interior can be seen on a guided (27 km) farther on, where there Dec 25. & ∑ nps.gov/tont P Gila County interesting exhibits on
reproduces a series of habitats tour, which explores the quirky is an excellent restaurant. This Historical Museum Hohokam history and culture.
including the Arizona-Sonora building and its eclectic settlement is at the east end of 1330 N. Broad St. Tel (928) 425-7385. Casa Grande is located
Desert and a tropical rainforest. collection of antiques and slender Canyon Lake, the first 3 Globe Open 10am–4pm Tue–Fri, 11am– 15 miles (24 km) east of
The zoo provides a home for furniture from around the world. of several Salt River reservoirs Road map C4. * 6,000. @ 3pm Sat. Closed Sun, Mon, Jan 1, Interstate Highway 10 (I-10)
created to provide Phoenix with n Globe Chamber of Commerce, Dec 25. 8 donation requested. on the outskirts of the town
water. The lake has a marina, 1360 N. Broad St. (928) 425 4495.  of Coolidge. It should not be
and 90-minute cruises are ∑ globemiamichamber.com 4 Casa Grande confused with the town of
offered on Dolly Steamboat. As Casa Grande, found to the
the road climbs higher into the The mining town of Globe lies Ruins National west of I-10.
Superstition Mountains it becomes about 100 miles (160 km) east Monument
more difficult to negotiate, of Phoenix in the wooded Road map C4. Tel (520) 723-3172.
before it reaches the 280-ft- (85- Dripping Spring and Pinal Open 9am–5pm daily. Closed
m-) high Theodore Roosevelt Mountains. In 1875, prospectors Thanksgiving, Dec 25. & 7
Dam, where there is good fishing struck silver near here in what ∑ nps.gov/cagr
and a variety of water sports. was then part of an Apache
Three miles (5 km) east of the Reservation. The reservation From around 200 BC until the
dam lies the Tonto National was divested of its silver-bearing middle of the 15th century,
Monument, which comprises hills, and Globe was founded as the Hohokam people farmed
two large sets of ruined cliff a mining town and supply the Gila River Valley to the
dwellings. The Salado people, center. It was named for a southeast of Phoenix. Among
who were fine craftsmen and massive nugget of silver, shaped the few Hohokam sites that The fortress-like Casa Grande Ruins
Façade of Phoenix’s unusual Mystery Castle created some of the superb like a globe, unearthed in the remain, the fortress-like National Monument
For hotels and restaurants see pp237–8 and pp249–51

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