Chiricahua National Monument is a real Eden for exotic species of fauna and flora. But here the reason for the creation of the National Monument of Nature - is carved into the rock to protect from erosion amazing, beautiful figures. In the north-west of the mountains can be seen a whole lot of these rock forms - fungi, pins, balancing rocks, pillars and such, which even hard to call ...
However, contrary to other similarly shaped landscapes - there were not material as sedimentary rocks in the Southwest, but the gray tuff, or Cemented volcanic ash, which came from the nearby Turkey Creek caldera. The volcano is inactive, but 25 million years ago, throwing the amount of ash, until they rose from the vast plateau.
a result of subsequent geological activity area was wypiętrzony and corrugated vertically and horizontally, creating a chain of mountains. Tuf is a soft material, so wind, water and ice easily formed in the peculiar sculpture, sometimes amusingly named by the imagination of people targeted: Duck on the Rock, Totem Pole, Sea Captain and the Punch and Judy.
If a traveler wants to see it all in all its glory - and I sincerely encourage you - to select the 13-kilometer route of Bonita Canyon Drive, which runs from the tourist center to the viewpoint Massai Point Overlook surrounded by pine trees, junipers and oaks.
This explains why nicked by the erosion of rocks, and over the back of rising Chiricahua band outside the park Cochise Head (head Koczisa - Apache chief). On the way back urge to beat the five-mile loops to a viewpoint on Sugarloaf Mountain, the highest peak in the park (2,245 m).
from Massai Point we have to choose a lot of hiking trails, which intersect each other (easily mistaken for trails!), Converge to the canyons to the Heart of Rocks, where you can see the most phenomenal figure. Recommended route goes through Echo Canyon - 6 mile loop, when the beat 137 m difference in levels down - we get to the stone gallery. Visitors will also enjoy Rhyolite Canyon Trail - 3 kilomery, which starts already at the tourist information center. Thus begins a short route - through the open meadows, up to the campsite.
Then the trail leads west to the Faraway Ranch in Bonita Canyon - ranch, where he lived nearly 90 years Ericksonowie who settled here two years after signing the peace treaty ending the war with the U.S. Army Apaches Chiricahua, defending the mountains, which was their homeland. Apaches, under the leadership of Cochise and later by Geronimo, has long fought to keep their land. But when in 1888 a treaty was signed, the Indians were imprisoned and eventually were forced to live in distant reserves.
the way back from the park worth stopping at Fort Bowie, the old fort belonging to the U.S. Army during the war with the Apaches who hid above the limits of a nearby park. Form
Geronimo Chiricahua Apache warrior is always alive in these parts, people interested in this form can be found after a lot of souvenirs in the area. On the other side of Coronado National Forest on the road number 80 is a monument commemorating the surrender
Geronimo U.S. Army (the place where you find the monument is not the original site, which is located a few miles away going through Skeleton Canyon to the east but it is private land and there is no admission).
Chiricahua National Monument is a real Eden for exotic species of fauna and flora. But here the reason for the creation of the National Monument of Nature - is carved into the rock to protect from erosion amazing, beautiful figures. In the north-west of the mountains can be seen a whole lot of these rock forms - fungi, pins, balancing rocks, pillars and such, which even hard to call ... 
However, contrary to other similarly shaped landscapes - there were not material as sedimentary rocks in the Southwest, but the gray tuff, or Cemented volcanic ash, which came from the nearby Turkey Creek caldera. The volcano is inactive, but 25 million years ago, throwing the amount of ash, until they rose from the vast plateau. 
a result of subsequent geological activity area was wypiętrzony and corrugated vertically and horizontally, creating a chain of mountains. Tuf is a soft material, so wind, water and ice easily formed in the peculiar sculpture, sometimes amusingly named by the imagination of people targeted: Duck on the Rock, Totem Pole, Sea Captain and the Punch and Judy. 
If a traveler wants to see it all in all its glory - and I sincerely encourage you - to select the 13-kilometer route of Bonita Canyon Drive, which runs from the tourist center to the viewpoint Massai Point Overlook surrounded by pine trees, junipers and oaks. 
This explains why nicked by the erosion of rocks, and over the back of rising Chiricahua band outside the park Cochise Head (head Koczisa - Apache chief). On the way back urge to beat the five-mile loops to a viewpoint on Sugarloaf Mountain, the highest peak in the park (2,245 m). 
from Massai Point we have to choose a lot of hiking trails, which intersect each other (easily mistaken for trails!), Converge to the canyons to the Heart of Rocks, where you can see the most phenomenal figure. Recommended route goes through Echo Canyon - 6 mile loop, when the beat 137 m difference in levels down - we get to the stone gallery. Visitors will also enjoy Rhyolite Canyon Trail - 3 kilomery, which starts already at the tourist information center. Thus begins a short route - through the open meadows, up to the campsite. 
Then the trail leads west to the Faraway Ranch in Bonita Canyon - ranch, where he lived nearly 90 years Ericksonowie who settled here two years after signing the peace treaty ending the war with the U.S. Army Apaches Chiricahua, defending the mountains, which was their homeland. Apaches, under the leadership of Cochise and later by Geronimo, has long fought to keep their land. But when in 1888 a treaty was signed, the Indians were imprisoned and eventually were forced to live in distant reserves. 
the way back from the park worth stopping at Fort Bowie, the old fort belonging to the U.S. Army during the war with the Apaches who hid above the limits of a nearby park. Form Geronimo Chiricahua Apache warrior is always alive in these parts, people interested in this form can be found after a lot of souvenirs in the area. On the other side of Coronado National Forest on the road number 80 is a monument commemorating the surrender Geronimo U.S. Army (the place where you find the monument is not the original site, which is located a few miles away going through Skeleton Canyon to the east but it is private land and there is no admission). 
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