Arizona 2008 Official State Visitor's Guide - (Page 23) © Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Tombstone Actor, Wyatt Earp Days ©AOT Bisbee Main Street ©AOT us with ghost stories of the hotel’s haunted past. Afterwards, we make our own ghost hunt through the halls. When it’s time to retire, I imagine John Wayne sleeping in the same bed we climb into. In the morning, we check out early, pick up deliciously fresh breakfast burritos at the High Desert Market and Café just up the hill on Bisbee’s Main Street, then head out on the road to the “Land of Sky Islands” at the Chiricahua National Monument. From Bisbee, we drive along the Mexican border to Douglas, where we turn north along a relatively barren stretch of Highway 191. The last stronghold of Geronimo and the Chiricahua Apache during the 1860s and 1870s until the great warrior’s eventual surrender to U.S. troops in 1886, the place still feels haunted by the spirits of its ancestors. The towers of what native people call “standing up rocks” were born from eruptions of the Turkey Creek Volcano some 27 million years ago. The tremendous congress of rocks was sculpted by eons of weathering and erosion that contributes to its life-like nature today. Like the Grand Canyon or Monument Valley, the Chiricahua mountain range is a unique, awe inspiring, super natural wonder. There are 17 miles of separate trails at various degrees of difficulty winding through designated wilderness areas, accessible on foot or horseback. We choose the 7 .3-mile, Visitor Center to Heart of Rocks and Return trail categorized by the park as a “strenuous hike. We accept the challenge of the ” w w w.ari zonaguide.com • 23 http://www.arizonaguide.com
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