On my last day of my vacation in October. Me and mom went to the Huhugam Heritage Center located in Chandler, Arizona. This a center with info and a museum about the Hokokam Pima Tribe. Hohokam culture, prehistoric North American Indians with lived approximately from 200 to 1400 ce in the semiarid region of present-day…
Category: National Monument
New National Monument #425
Today the president announced a new National Monument is coming. It will be the 425 park of the National Park Service. It will be called Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument that is located in Mississippi and Illinois. This monument it about a 14 year old black kid getting kidnapped and killed and his…
Arizona Chiricahua National Monument #11 (Part 3)
A Wonderland of Rocks In April 2023, me and my family went to Chiricahua NM. We went to the visitor center to look around and get my stamps. We drove up the hill to see the scenery around the park. We stopped at some different locations along the road. At the top of the hill…
Arizona: Tuzigoot National Monument #64
Hilltop Living On 4/20/2018, me and my mom went to see Tuzigoot National Monument. When they first found the spot after the settles left it was a bunch of rocks.The rangers put it back together. It use to have up to a 100 rooms. There was some great views from the ruins. Tuzigoot National Monument…
Arizona: Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument #15
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is located in Flagstaff, Arizona. There is lava rock everywhere. Here is a booklet that I got from the visitor center. Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
Arizona: Chiricahua National Monument #11
Chiricahua NM is located in Wilcox, AZ. There is a 8 mile paved scenic drive and 17 miles of day use hikes. You can also check out the Faraway Ranch Historic District. This was my first visit to this park. I don’t remember seeing the rocks. I do have a postcard and the visitor center…
Arizona: Canyon de Chelly National Monument #10
When I was younger in the 1990’s I don’t remember going to this park. My dad says we have been there. Here is a flyer that I got from there.
Arizona: Montezuma Castle National Monument #5
This is me and my dad walking up a trail to see the Montezuma Castle National Monument. The monument is located in Camp Verde, AZ. Montezuma Castle National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
Alabama: Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument #58
On 6/27/2017, me and my mom went on a tour to Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument in Birmingham, Alabama. There are seven stops for this park. The ones that we went to were Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Kelly Ingram Park. The first stop that we went to was 16th Street…
New Mexico: Aztec Ruins National Monument #108
While me and dad were on our trip in October 2022, we stopped by Aztec Ruins National Monument. This park has amazing ruins of the places where American Indian Pueblos and tribes lived in. It look like one big house with all these rooms, but the were single homes for most of them. There was…