The Sonoran Desert is an icon of the Wild West ... Out of all the species found here, the saguaro cactus is truly one of the crown jewels of this park. Other cacti include organ pipe cacti ...

Located within the Sonoran Desert, Rincon Mountain District ... an old homestead foundation, and a saguaro grove. Lorentzen describes the Cactus Forest Trail as a “relatively flat, 2.5-mile ...

It’s one of Maricopa’s best-kept secrets, even if it’s a massive half-million acres with three federally protected desert wilderness areas.

Cactus ferruginous pygmy owls are named for the saguaro cactuses ... Sadly they’re no match for urban development gobbling up their unique Sonoran Desert habitat in the U.S. Southwest. These tiny owls ...

And so it was that in March 2000 at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona, Hutto set his sights on the Sonoran Desert’s stately icon — the saguaro cactus. Several years earlier, ...

Blue corn is an important food to the Navajo people. It’s the title of a new book of poems by Amber McCrary, "Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert." ...

This 92,867-acre park is dedicated to the largest cactus in the U.S., the saguaro (pronounced sa-WAH ... Across the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's 98 acres, you'll find 230 animal species ...

can store 5,000 litres of water Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea), Sonoran desert, Arizona. A mature saguaro can store 5,000 litres of water. To accommodate this it has pleats, like an accordion ...

My body protested against this trek through the Sonoran Desert ... I was absorbed into stories about the saguaro cactus, native to and a symbol of the desert (its blossom is the state flower ...

The desert city in southern Arizona is a sanctuary for stargazers—and now it's even easier for visitors to explore.

FORT MCDOWELL, AZ — At Butcher Jones Recreation Site, you can hike along the shores of Saguaro Lake for sweeping views of the Sonoran Desert. The 5.8-mile out-and-back trail in Tonto National ...