More of Arizona

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, two of the most prominent movie stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, were married on March 18, 1939, in Kingman, Arizona.

Rainfall averages for Arizona range from less than three inches in the deserts

 to more than 30 inches per year in the mountains.

Arizona has 3,928 mountain peaks and summits—more mountains than any one of the other Mountain States (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming).

There are more wilderness areas in Arizona than in the entire Midwest. 

Arizona alone has 90 wilderness areas, while the Midwest has 50.

  

Roadrunners are not just in cartoons! 

In Arizona, you’ll see them running up to 17-mph away from their enemies.

  

A saguaro cactus can store up to nine tons of water.

( Love the bridge on the left... )

Kartchner Caverns, near Benson, Arizona, is a massive limestone cave with

 13,000 feet of passages, two rooms as long as football fields, 

and one of the world’s longest soda straw stalactites: measuring 21 feet 3 inches.

Pioneer filmmaker, Cecil B. DeMille originally traveled to Flagstaff to make his first film but he arrived there in the middle of a storm and decided to move operations further west, to Hollywood. His film, The Squaw Man (1914), went on to be wildly successful, launching the fledgling movie industry and establishing Hollywood as the movie capital of the world.

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