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Madera Creek. Madera Canyon is a canyon in the northwestern face of the Santa Rita Mountains, twenty-five miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. As part of the Coronado National Forest, Madera Canyon has campsites, picnic areas, and miles of hiking trails. The canyon is also used as a resting place for migrating birds, and it is thus known as a ...
Madera Canyon is a formerly populated place situated in the Santa Rita Mountains of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. It has an estimated elevation of 4,911 feet (1,497 m) above sea level. [1]
The Coronado National Forest is a United States National Forest that includes an area of about 1.78 million acres (7,200 km 2) spread throughout mountain ranges in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico . It is located in parts of Cochise, Graham, Santa Cruz, Pima, and Pinal Counties in Arizona, and Hidalgo County in New Mexico.
Fee areas of the National Park System comprise a minority of the areas of the United States National Park System administered by the National Park Service. [1] [2] A majority of sites are fee-free areas. The list below includes all areas that charge an entrance or standard amenity fee; generally not included are sites that only charge expanded ...
The Santa Rita Mountains ( O'odham: To:wa Kuswo Doʼag ), located about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Tucson, Arizona, extend 26 miles (42 km) from north to south, then trending southeast. They merge again southeastwards into the Patagonia Mountains, trending northwest by southeast. The highest point in the range, and the highest point in the ...
Mount Wrightson ( O'odham: Ce:wi Duag [4]) is a 9,456-foot (2,882 m) peak in the Santa Rita Mountains within the Coronado National Forest, in southern Arizona, United States. It was named for William Wrightson, a miner and entrepreneur in the region killed by Apaches in the 1865 Battle of Fort Buchanan .
Wagler, 1831. The yellow-eyed junco ( Junco phaeonotus) is a species of junco, a group of small New World sparrows . Its range is primarily in Mexico, extending into some of the mountains of the southern tips of the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico. It is not generally migratory, but sometimes moves to nearby lower elevations during winter ...
The species is found in Mexico, in mountains 1,800–3,500 m (5,900–11,500 ft) above sea level. Its habitat is mostly ravines of pine and pine-oak forests. The Aztec thrush is a vagrant in western Texas to southeastern Arizona. [6] The first record in the United States was an immature bird observed in 1977 in Big Bend National Park, Texas.