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Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ

Saguaro Sunrise, Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ, February 1, 2012
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

Nights I've camped here

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."

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