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Bookmark or Share- Coconino National Forest - Kachina Peaks Wilderness - US Forest ServiceHere's a wilderness experience that takes you as high as you can get in Arizona. This 18,960 acre roadless area encompasses most of the upper reaches of the San Francisco Peaks including Humphreys Peak, Arizona's highest point at 12,643 feet.
- Humphreys Peak - WikipediaHumphreys Peak is the highest of a group of dormant volcanic peaks known as the San Francisco Peaks. [7] Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U.S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
- History of the San Francisco Peaks - US Forest ServiceHistory of the San Francisco Peaks In the 1500s, the Spanish Conquistadors explored the area searching for gold and came upon the peaks and named them “Sierra Sinagua” meaning Mountains Without Water.
- San Francisco Peaks - WikipediaThe San Francisco Peaks are the remains of an eroded stratovolcano. [3] An aquifer within the caldera supplies much of Flagstaff's water while the mountain itself is in the Coconino National Forest , a popular recreation site.
- San Francisco Peaks – Navajo Sacred Mountain - Navajo PeopleThe San Francisco Peaks, is where the sun sets. When you watch the sun set behind the San Francisco Peaks from a certain location, the setting sun creates this bright hue into the sky making a certain kind of light reflect down to earth.
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