Visit our sister site:
Arizona, United States Landmarks
Tourist attractions, famous landmarks and other points of interest in Arizona:
|
|
The Grand Canyon was created by the Colorado River cutting a channel into the surrounding plateau over a period of about 6 million years.
|
|
|
Painted Desert is the name for a broad area of colorful badlands located in Northern Arizona in the United States.
|
|
|
The Petrified Forest features one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood. The park covers 218,533 acres (341.5 sq mi / 885 kmē).
|
|
|
The park was established as Saguaro National Monument on March 1, 1933 and changed to a national park on October 14, 1994. The total area of Saguaro National Park in 2002 was 143 square miles (370 kmē) of which 111 square miles (289 kmē) is wilderness.
|