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Information about visiting a surprisingly scenic place, a densely wooded area crisscrossed with little canyons, in a state not known for its scenery.

See them before they get logged.

Home to the "Sky Islands" - mountaintops high enough to catch the rain, islands of woodland surrounded by the Sonoran desert below. The information you need to somewhere worth visiting. Please bring food that doesn't need to be cooked if you do come to camp, and leave the campfires at home. Wildfires are no small matter in this area; one of them wiped the town of Summerhaven off the face of the earth earlier in this decade.

Ambient video. Looking around the forest in an area that saw a high density emergence of the 17 year cicada in 2007. Those places were often surprisingly hard to find in the Chicago area..