Chiricahua National Monument is recommended and worth your time. Incredible landscapes of stone columns stimulate your imagination... Chiricahua National Monument Like soldiers frozen in stone... Chiricahua National Monument Chiricahua National Monument Chiricahua National Monument

Chiricahua National Monument is a fee area, but just before the entrance booth, there is a road to the right. Follow this road a couple miles and there are several primitive campsites. Pinery Canyon Road / Road#42 Campsites on Pinery Canyon Road Near the summit... Between Chiricahua National Monument and Paradise, Arizona IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW WHAT FIRE RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT BEAR FACTS This is bear country. PHOTO HERE Crazy rattlesnake attacking the car RATTLESNAKE FACTS We had a crazy rattlesnake attack our car at Chiricahua National Monument. He kept slamming into the door... unusual. Every rattlesnake we encountered before, was most interested to escape or mind it's own business. Chiricahua National Monument Chiricahua National Monument

DIRECTIONS: From Sunsizona, Arizona take Hwy.181 Follow the signs to Chiricahua National Monument. Just before you enter Chiricahua National Monument Turn right on Pinery Canyon Road / Road#42 The first couple miles are private lands. (Pinery Canyon Road continues through to Paradise) From I-5 exit at Wilcox. Take Hwy.186 south Turn east on Hwy.181 The road towards Paradise, Arizona ROAD CONDITIONS: Pinery Canyon Road is a rough dirt road. Some serious washboards the first couple miles. If you continue all the way through to Paradise, there are some washes and creeks you have to transverse... Passenger cars can make it with good weather and caution. Perfect desert house... Along road towards Paradise, Arizona DISTANCES: From Hwy.80 and Hwy.181 Chiricahua National Monument 26 miles Drinking water at Chiricahua National Monument (At the Visitor Center) Also see: CHERRY CREEK Also see: CITY OF ROCKS Also see: COCHISE STRONGHOLD Also see: COCHISE STRONGHOLD WEST Also see: HIGHWAY 191 Also see: MESCAL Also see: TURKEY CREEK ROAD Geronimo Surrendered on Sept. 6th 1886 in Skeleton Canyon and foreber ended Indian Warfare in the United States. Memorial erected in 1934 by the city of Douglas. RATTLESNAKE RANCH We expected a pit full of rattlesnakes and some crazy person... instead we found a museum in the middle of the desert. CAMPGROUND INDEX CAMPING RECIPES CAMPING CHECKLISTS TOURIST PHOTOS It is recommended to buy a National Parks Pass with Golden Eagle Hologram. It is valid for one year and covers entrance fees to National Parks and Monuments. The Golden Eagle Hologram covers things like Forest Passes and BLM Lands. www.eugenecarsey.com Free campgrounds and camping ARIZONA CAMPGROUNDS CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST PINERY CANYON ROAD CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT