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Old Town Albuquerque

Old Town Albuquerque is the picturesque historic district in the heart of New Mexico's largest city. Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdez founded Villa de Albuquerque in 1706 a few hundred yards from the Rio Grande, constructing the town around a ...

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Palace of Fine Arts

San Franciscans built the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915 both to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal and to demonstrate the resolve of San Francisco after the city’s destructive fire in 1906. Despite the odds, San Franciscans, aided by fellow ...

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Palo Duro

Originally opened on July 4, 1934, Palo Duro State Park, located in Canyon, Texas, encompasses 29,182 acres of the northernmost portion of the Palo Duro Canyon. At approximately 120 miles long, as much as 20 miles wide, and with a ...

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Palo Duro State Park

Established on July 4, 1934, on the northern side of the Palo Duro Canyon, the Palo Duro Canyon State Park encompasses over 16,000 acres. It is located in Armstrong and Randall County in Texas. Built in the 1930s, the Civilian ...

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Petroglyph National Monument

Established in 1990, The Petroglyph National Monument is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The National Park Service and the City of Albuquerque Open Space Division operate the park. It is home to 25,000 petroglyphs, most of which are 400-700 years ...

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Rhyolite Ghost Town

Located near Death Valley, Nevada, the ghost town of Rhyolite offers visitors a view of the once prosperous mining city from the early nineteenth century. Gold discovered near Bullfrog Mountain, in 1904, led to the city’s establishment. The city of ...

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Sangre de Christos Mountains

A sixteenth-century Spanish missionary received heavy wounds during a skirmish with Native Americans, who had been forcefully pressured to serve as guides to the traveling Europeans as they ventured from Mexico to the American Southwest. As the missionary paddled out ...

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Sky Harbor International Airport

Sky Harbor International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the Sonoran Desert, at an elevation of approximately 1,117 feet, Phoenix was incorporated as a city in 1861 and is currently ranked as the sixth ...

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Sosa-Carrillo Fremont House Museum

Earliest records indicate that the pioneering Sosa family constructed an adobe home to reflect the life of a wealthy Tucson family in the 1880s, known today as the Sosa-Carrillo Fremont House Museum. In 1878 Manuela Sosa sold the property to ...

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South Kaibab Trail

The National Park Service constructed the South Kaibab Trail, on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, as an alternative to the Bright Angel Trail, which Ralph Cameron built and charged hikers a few to use. The South Kaibab Trail ...

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