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Camp Verde, Az

The Camp which got it's name from the valley was originally a military post established to protect settlers from Native Americans. Not much is left of the camp except a few buildings including the out house and the headquarters building which is now a museum.

Mogollen RimCamp Verdecamp Verde

Camp Verde with the Mogollen Rim in the background is located near Sedona, Az as well as some other interesting ancient historical points of interest which all except Jerome we had also visited in a previous trip such as Montezuma's Castle,

Montezuma's CastleWoodpeckerMontezuma's Castle

Montezuma's Wells,

Montezuma's WellsMontezuma's WellsMontezuma's Wells

I guess graffiti is graffiti unless it's over 100 years old.

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Tuzigoot,

TuzigotTuzigot

 

Jerome, Arizona once a mining town now a tourist town

JeromeJeromeJerome

front WallJerome SP

Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Dead Horse Ranch SPDead Horse Ranch SP

Wet Beaver Creek. We again walked on the Bell Trail but this time turned around in 2.5 miles of the six mile trail instead of the 4 miles we had walked in 2002.

Wet Beaver Creekflower

bell trailBell Trail

We re-visited the V-BAR-V Ranch Petroglyph Site with 1,032 individual petroglyph which have been identified in 13 panels

V-Bar_Vpictoglyphs

and learned that archeologists have discovered that a man made crack in the wall is actually the profile of the San Francisco Peaks behind Flagstaff,AZ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Peaks

cliff carvingSan Francisco Peaks

 

We left Camp Verde and went up to Williams, Arizona

 

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