Homolovi State Park is located about one mile north of Winslow. The park has preseved over 300 Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites. Two of the sites are open to visitors. The park sits at an elevation of 4,900 feet, and is the closest campground to Petrified Forest National Park.
This is one of my favorite overlooks of the Grand Canyon. Not many people know about it, and access is easy.
The Grandview Trail is one of my favorite trails on the South Rim. It is never crowded.
I always enjoy a walk out to Shoshone Point, because it's never crowded.
Haulapai Mountain Park is a beautiful place for camping and hiking.
I saw an Arizona Black Rattlesnake on the Woodchute Trail, an 8.5 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Jerome, Arizona. This snake is endemic to the central mountains of the state from below the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona, along and below the Mogollon Rim, through the White Mountains, and down into the Santa Catalina and Rincons. It is found at elevations ranging from about 4,000 to 9,000 feet. Most individuals of this species are relatively docile compared to other rattlesnakes in Arizona. However, the venom is 2 to 2.5 times the toxicity of the Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake (Lowe et al. 1986, Rubio 2010).
