Get your camera ready for Saguaro National Park. The park is home to the tallest cactus species in the country, the saguaro, a symbol of the Southwest. They’re particularly concentrated in the west ...

While the Grand Canyon may be Arizona’s most well-known national park, it’s not the only one worth a visit. With 22 total National Park Service monuments, parks, recreation areas, historic sites, and ...

Sonoran Desert landscape around Tucson, Arizona. credit: Catherine Parker Straddling Tucson's east and west sides in ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — In an effort to help provide park leaders with information on wildlife, 60 cameras were set up by the National Park Service’s Sonoran Desert Network across Saguaro National Park ...

Most of the people reading these words weren't alive when Saguaro National Park was set aside as a federal preserve 75 years ago. Ah, but here's a telling fact: Many of the saguaro cacti now growing ...

Parts of Saguaro National Park west of Tucson are having a banner year for spring wildflowers — and it’s still a week until the beginning of spring. Carpets of gold poppies and large clumps of blue ...

Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

Saguaro National Park West will add 47 acres to its protected park lands in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains after an acquisition of two properties by the Trust for Public Land. The addition will ...

Visitors to Saguaro National Park West will see scenic roads closed from Oct. 4-30 for construction. Access to Bajada Loop Drive from the Hugh Norris Trail Head to Golden Gate Road will be closed from ...

Jan 3, 2023 Jan 3, 2023 Updated Jun 18, 2024 0 Saguaro National Monument in Tucson was created in 1933, expanded in 1961, and became Saguaro National Park in 1994. There are two units: East, which ...

The Trust for Public Land closed a deal to acquire 47 acres that will be added to Saguaro National Park West near Tucson. The trust worked with Pima County and the Southern Arizona Hiking Club to make ...