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The Superstition Mountain Museum & Apacheland Movie Ranch
Where educational artificats chock-full to the brim AND television and movie stars collide! In 1989, The Superstition Mountain Historical Society rented a building at Goldfield Ghost Town on the Apache Trail and a museum opened its doors to the public in January, 1990, a location that did not change until 2003. During the ensuing 13 years, the society was able to purchase property of its own along the Apache Trail (Highway 88) just northeast of the Apache Junction, Arizona city limits. A building was erected and in October, 2003, Superstition Mountain Museum moved to its new quarters located on 12+ prime acres at 4087 N. Apache Trail. Cited: superstitionmountainmuseum.org We learned so much…
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Meteor Crater & Barringer Space Museum
This was Indy Leo’s favorite excursion on our Arizona trip! Definitely one of the coolest sites I have seen in my lifetime! Over 50,000 years ago space and earth came together when a huge iron-nickel meteorite, approximately 150 feet wide and weighing several hundred thousand tons, impacted an area outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, with a force 150 times greater than an atomic bomb. The result of this impact was devastation for miles and the creation of the giant bowl-shaped cavity we call Meteor Crater, which measures 550 feet deep and almost a mile wide. Cited: Meteorcrater.com The meteorite weighed 300,000 tons and traveled at a speed of 26,000 miles per…
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Slide Rock State Park
You can find this Arizona gem in Oak Creek Canyon and before or after the iconic rock peaks of Sedona (depending on your direction)…..then straight on till morning! Slide Rock State Park, originally the Pendley Homestead, is a 43-acre historic apple farm located in Oak Creek Canyon. Frank L. Pendley, having arrived in the canyon in 1907, formally acquired the land under the Homestead Act in 1910. Due to his pioneering innovation, he succeeded where others failed by establishing a unique irrigation system still in use by the park today. This allowed Pendley to plant his first apple orchard in 1912, beginning the pattern of agricultural development that has dominated…
