Arizona is a state of great variety in it’s landscape and views. It’s evolution of a million years has left this state with some brilliant highs and lows. It the beginning, this state was all under water like much of the world. When the water receded the ground dried and settled. Volcanoes erupted and push the Arizona mountain ranges into the air. The left over water became rivers and streams that are replenished with the snow if the high country and the rain of the monsoons in the deserts. The southern part of the state is desert with it’s almost barren mountains. The northern part of the state has lush green forests of ponderosa pines.
However, starting in the north of the state and moving to the west, visitors of Arizona can see one of the most impressive natural wonders on the planet. The Grand Canyon is a carving into the ground like no other. The Colorado River slowly carried the volcanic ash, sand and mud down it’s with and left some amazing plateaus and mesas. The Canyon sits a mile deep and seems to go on for ever.
Some of the other notable monuments go to the early civilizations that date back 20,000 years. The ruins are left up in high cliff dwellings such as Montezuma Castle. With these ancient ruins you will see evidence of a complex irrigation systems used in early agriculture. There are clues left behind telling a story of a great drought that led to the end of the early cities, however, their irrigation systems are still used in the near by modern city Phoenix Arizona. So find a room at one of the luxury hotels Arizona has to offer and see some of this prehistoric man made and natural monuments.