TUCSON ARIZONA

We spent a month at Diamond J's in Tucson, Arizona.  The campground is is located next a large stretch of BLM land and Tucson Mountain Park.  We hiked a large portion of their trails and two tracks.  A few members of the campground folks formed a hiking group, so Linda and I hiked with them a couple of times.  We did managed to see some petroglyphs, an owl, and a cactus with 60 some arms.  I would recomend Diamond J's just on location alone.  However, if you are looking for bathrooms, showers, swimiming pool. etc., you might want to look into the campground next door.



All of the trails we hiked were measured in miles.  The hike out to the Owls nest was about 4/5 miles, but well worth it.

There were several things we wanted to accomplish on this trip to Tucson.  The Biosphere 2 was on the top of my list.  Biosphere 2 was opened to the public in 1990.  The engineering marvel was created to better understand how natual enviroments create habitable conditions for human sustainability.  Biosphere 2 contains recreations of five of Earth's biomes, plus a human habitat and a large ecologial experiment facility.