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San Angelo, TX, Library

Click here for an explanation of the indexes to the National Parks & Monuments I've visited.
[Where I'm unable to find a post of the photos I've taken I'll use the U.S. National Park Service web pages for that Park or Monument; also, the one link below is the main National Park Service web site.]

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument 16 Mar 2011
Olympic National Park 24 Jun 2012
Painted Desert/Petrified Forest National Park 7 Mar 2011

Pinnacles National Monument (1 photo) 17 Nov 2010
Pipestone National Monument 20 Jun 2014
Point Reyes National Seashore 17 Jul 2011
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (Abo) 16 May 2014
Salinas Pueblo Mission National Monument (Quarai) 30 May 2014
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (Gran Quivira) 4 Jun 2014

Sequoia National Park 20 Apr 2011
Theodore Roosevelt National Park 16 Jun 2014
Yellowstone National Park 23 Jun 2013
Yosemite National Park 23 Apr 2011
Yosemite National Park (& Saddleback Lake) 18 Oct 2012
Yosemite National Park (& the Tioga Road) 26 Oct 2011
Zion National Park 14 Mar 2011

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Links:

U.S. National Park Service web site

Routes:

Su 30 Nov Actual Route: Van Horn Trk Stp - Kent, TX, - Ft Stockton McDs - Walmart

M 1 Dec Actual Route: Ft Stockton W/M - McCamey, TX, Big Lake - San Angelo Lowe's - Sherwood Way W/M

T 2 Dec Actual Route: Sherwood Way W/M - San Angelo Lib - West Texas RV Serv - Dollar Tree - Sherwood Way W/M

W 3 Dec Actual Route: Sherwood Way W/M - San Angelo Lib - Visitor Ctr - Sherwood Way W/M

Th 4 Dec Actual Route: Sherwood Way W/M - San Angelo Lib - Big Lots - Sherwood Way W/M

F 5 Dec Actual Route: Sherwood Way W/M - W.Texas RV Service - San Angelo Lib - Sherwood Way W/M

Sa 6 Dec Actual Route: Sherwood Way W/M - W.Texas RV Service - San Angelo Lib - Visitor Ctr - Sherwood Way W/M

Su 7 Dec Actual Route: Sherwood Way W/M - Visitor Ctr - Sherwood Way W/M

M 8 Dec Actual Route: Sherwood Way W/M - San Angelo, TX, Lib - San Angelo State Park

T 9 Dec Actual Route: San Angelo State Park - San Angelo Lib - Sherwood Way W/M

Finding Campgrounds:

RV Campgrounds from TrailerLifeDirectory.com
Family Camping Directories from Woodalls.com
Free campsites website
Info on finding BLM Campgrounds

N.B. I receive nothing from Trailer Life, Woodalls, or FreeCampsites.net for including links to their free campground lookups.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Organ Pipes Cactus Natl Monument

Tucson, AZ

    After driving from Kingman to Wickenburg to Ajo on 12 Feb and finally locating an RV park with WiFi after dark, I headed for Organ Pipes Cactus Natl Monument the next morning. [While I'm posting these photos and some explanatory text today or tomorrow, in about 10 days I'll change the date to 13 Feb.]

    The first photo is of the Kris Eggle Visitor Center, which is named for a NPS ranger who with several Border Patrolmen attempted to apprehend two illegal aliens. One surrendered but the second opened fire with an AK-47, hitting Ranger Eggle below his vest causing a fatal injury.

    The first two photos show good views of an organ pipe cactus; I suspect this one gets more water than the few I saw along the road to the Visitors Center. I also saw one while driving around Tucson, but wondered if the owner obtained his at the "Midnight Cactus Nursery." [Click 1 or 2 times to read "Challenge and Sacrifice."]

The fourth photo is of a chainfruit cholla at the Visitor Center.

While driving AZ Highway 86 from Organ Pipes NM to Tucson I came across a historical marker which described a late 1880s gold-mining boom that went bust.

Links:

Details of the death of Kris Eggle
History of Ajo
Wikipedia article on Ajo

M 7 Mar Route: Page-Lake Powell (RV) Campground