Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ
Saguaro Sunrise, Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ, February 1, 2012
Cave Creek Regional Park is a busy new RV park and recreational area near Cave Creek AZ.
This is a busy park and reservations are required but there is a large overflow parking area for those without reservations.
Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - very good signal
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Nights I've camped here
- Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ
- Image: Saguaro Sunrise, Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ, February 1, 2012.
- Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ
- Bad food? Who knows. Whatever it was, it looks like we'll be here a while. Jane was laid low overnight and is in no condition to fly out of Tucson later today as scheduled. She has rescheduled her flight for Thursday and we will stay here until Thursday morning and hopefully she can recover enough stability and strength to fly by then. Bummer. Image: Redeye to Phoenix, Plomosa Road, Quartzsite AZ, January 29, 2012.
- Monday, January 30, 2012 - Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ
- Image: The Road to Jerome, Jerome AZ, January 30, 2012.
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
"The mountains and the sun...were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains, disheartened the Indians as they crept stealthily or rode swiftly through the valleys, assuring them that all their arts and craft had not availed to conceal their trails, that troops were pursuing them and others awaiting them. The telescopes of the Signal Corps, who garrisoned the rudely built but impregnable works on the mountains, permitted no movement by day, no cloud of dust even in the valleys below to escape attention. Little wonder that the Indians thought that the powers of the unseen world were confederated against them."