The Saguaro National Monument is located east of Tucson at the foot of the Rincon Mountains. The park has a visitors center, area hiking trails, a campground and a paved driving loop. There is a small fee for entrance.
Tucson Mountain Park
The Tucson Mountain Park encompasses most of the Tucson Mountains. Running through the middle is Speedway Blvd which turns into Gates Pass Road and will climb up and over the mountains and out on to the desert ending at Kinney Road near the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum. North of the Desert Museum is the Saguaro National Monument -West.
The Tucson Mountains and Saguaro Cactus.
The Tucson Mountains, Gates Pass.
Tucson Mountains, Gates Pass.
Tucson Mountains, Gates Pass.
Tucson Mountains, Sonoran Desert.
Moon rise from Gates Pass
Catalina Highway during Monsoons
The Catalina Highway runs from Tucson up to Summer Haven at the top of Mt. Lemon.
One of the waterfalls flowing from the Catalina mountains
Assorted Scenery
This set of scenery photos comes from all over Arizona.
The road from Portal, AZ into the Chiricahua Mountains
Marble canyon is at the east end of the Grand Canyon