Conveniently located just 5 miles east of Picacho State Prison.
Eremita Mesa is the name of a plateau a few miles west of the end of Hermit's Rest Road (or the West Rim Trail, for hikers) on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
Portal and its small store and inn provide a jumping off point for some of the most dramatic mountains in the American Chihuahuan desert of New Mexico and Arizona.
Once night a year, during the summer months, Tohono Chul opens it's doors free to the public to witness the opening of the Night Blooming Cereus, otherwise known as "The Queen of the Night".
Though Mooney Falls in the Grand Canyon is 100 feet taller than its more popular waterfall upstream, Havasu Falls, it is much less visited being farther up the trail and having a rather adventurous trail descending to the bottom of it.
Havasu Falls is a 100-foot tall waterfall in the Grand Canyon that is a desert oasis in every sense of the word.