Monumental Places: Arizona’s National Parks and Monuments

Arizona is home to some of the crown jewels in America’s national park system, including Canyon de Chelly, Saguaro National Monument, and, of course, the Grand Canyon National Park. It also harbors lesser-known treasures, too, such as Chiricahua National Monument, Hubbell Trading Post, and the recently inaugurated Agua Fria National Monument.
This talk explores these many natural treasures and how they came to be made part of the National Park system—and indeed, how they came to help create that system in the first place.