Montezuma Castle
Sources include: https://www.nps.gov/moca/ Photographed by Imogen Parish.
Located in Campe verde, arizona, USA, Montezuma Castle is a national monument situated between Phoenix and Sedona. Pre-Columbian indigenous Sinaguan people still call its multiple dwelling landscape home. The castle was built between 1100 Ad. Drought and conflict originally drew its people away from the land during the 1400s, but the castle was established as a site of cultural preservation in 1906. It’s estimated around 150 people once lived on the land, the five story dwelling housing twenty rooms.
Beaver creek, trees of sycamore and cottonwood.
Flagstaff
Sources include: https://www.flagstaff.az.gov/ Photographed by Imogen Parish.
Surrounded by the San Francisco Mountains in north-central Arizona, USA, Flagstaff is referred to by locals as ‘The Peaks’. It’s home to the tallest mountain in the state, Humphreys Peak. It was the world’s first international Dark Sky City, awarded by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA). It’s the coldest city in Arizona, renowned for its large ski resort trade, the Arizona Snowbowl. Both the Wupatki National Monument and the Grand Canyon are situated a northern drive of the city.
San Francisco Street is tied to the historic Route 66. The city has a population of over 75,000 people.
Wupakti National Park
Sources include: The Wupakti Pueblo Trail Guide & National Monument, Visitor Centre. https://www.nps.gov/wupa/ Photographed by Imogen Parish.
Wupakti was once a major farming settlement for the Sinagua, Cohonina, and Kayenta people until mid 1100 CE. The monument once houses one-hundred rooms, a tower and ceremonial ballcourt for its residents. By 1190, over 2,000 people lived within the grounds and backdrop of the San Francisco Peaks. Most of the main structure was made from stone walls with clay mortar and sandstone flooring, with over onehundred different architectural types of pottery.
Situated in North Central Arizona, USA. North of Flagstaff.
Grand Canyon
Sources from the Grand Canyon National Park Service leaflet and their online website: https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/index.htm Photographed by Imogen Parish.
A less photographed side of the Grand Canyon on a misty day, taken from on South-Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park. The Colorado River can be seen near the park’s western edge, passing the Grand Wash Cliffs. Eleven tribes still call the canyon home today, using it for ceremonies and trade. These are the: Yavapai-Apache, Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Kaibab Paiute, Navajo, Las Vegas Paiute, Moapa Paiute, Paiute Indian, San Juan Southern Paiute, and Zuni. The Park has twenty-nine trails and sees up to five million visitors a year.
A mural in Williams, Arizona, depicting different features from the town and its history. The ‘Gateway to the Grand Canyon’, the Grand Canyon Railway start and end.
Sedona
Sources include: https://www.sedonaaz.gov/ Photographed by Imogen Parish.
Surrounded by vibrant red sandstone rocks and canyon walls, Sedona is an arts community town south of Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, with a population below 10,000. It has multiple trails, popular for its range of outdoor activities with tourists that like hiking & biking. It’s a spiritual space with many niche shops and spas central around the energies of the land.
Chemical weathering of the iron oxide within the rock layers over many decades is what makes the canyons a unique red.
Nogales
Sources include: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border_wallhttps://nogalesaz.gov/ Photographed by Imogen Parish
The city of Nogales has a population of over 20,000, situated in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA. It’s a major port of entry, the Mexican border slicing the town in half. Together the two communities are referred to as Ambos Nogales (both Nogales). The wall is prominently visible from either side of the border. On average, it sees around 8,000 people a day enter a from Mexico into the US, with numbers greatly exceeding this during busy periods.
The length of the border between the US and Mexico is 1,954 miles long.
Tumacacori
Sources from the Tumacacori National Historic Park museum and leaflet: https://www.nps.gov/articles/tumacacori.htm Photographed by Imogen Parish
During the late 1600s and the mid 1800s, Spanish settlers arrived in Pimeria Alta. Situated between the border of what is now western Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. It is nineteen miles north of Nogales. Spanish settlers formed a mission community, establishing a church and European governance. A few O’odham natives from the land moved into the community to avoid Apache raids, seeking protection. The O’odham valued storytelling through chants and music, incorporating this into church Mass. However, Natives and European settlers often fought and much of this is undocumented.
The O’odham people lived in domeshaped brush houses (Ki:ki) along the Santa Cruz River.
Tucson
Photographed by Imogen Parish. Available readings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson,_Arizona
Tucson is situated within Pima County, southern Arizona, USA. Located in the Sonoran Desert, it is renowned for its unique scenery. As the second largest city in the state and home to The University of Arizona, it attracts many young people from far and wide. With 350 days of sun a year, it built its reputation as the sunniest city in all of the country.
Sentinel Peak in the image above has ties to the local college. The United States Census Bureau claims the population of Tuscon to be 546,574.
Salt River Indian Reserve
Sources include: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_River_Pima%E2%80%93Maricopa_Indian_Com munity#:~:text=The%20community%20area%20includes%2053%2C600,the%20total%2 0population%20is%207%2C386 https://naair.arizona.edu/salt-river-pima-maricopaindian#:~:text=The%20Pima%20are%20descendants%20of,east%20from%20the%20Col orado%20River. Photographed by Imogen Parish.
The Salt River Indian Reserve is a Native community space made up of around 53,600 acres, with 19,000 acres of natural reservation land. More than 7,386 descendants of the Hohokam people still reside within the land, known as the Pima (river people). The Maricopa (people who live toward the water) migrated east from the Colorado Rive. The canals are traditionally irrigated around and within the Scottsdale area, Phoenix, USA.
This photograph was taken behind a fence, the reservation land is only accessible to the native communities that reside within the area of Phoenix.
Phoenix
Sources include: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona https://www.nps.gov/sagu/learn/nature/saguaro.htm Photographed by Imogen Parish.
Phoenix is the capital of the state of Arizona, with a population of one-million & a half, making it the fifth-largest US city. Home to a variety of recreational activities, with a large golf scene and a cultural hub for desert landscapes, one of the largest municipal parks. Saguaro cacti are found exclusively here, amongst the Sonoran Desert, due to the perfect elevation levels required for them to thrive. Over fifty arms may grow on one plant, reaching heights between forty and sixty feet tall.
California based In-N-Out fast food chain serves burgers exclusively within the states of: California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas and Oregon