Adam and I took a weekend trip through Arizona. We left super early (think 3:30am) from Phoenix on a Friday morning, and spent the weekend traveling up through Northern and Northeastern Arizona. Fromer's book in hand, we truly experienced a road trip, stopping at all of the side-of-the-road exhibits on the way. In fact, this trip inspired this blog, so the next few entries will be dedicated to each place we stopped along the way.
The first place we stopped, Sunset Crater, was just outside of Flagstaff. This place is worth a quick visit if you're on your way to the Grand Canyon or on your way to Page (where we were going). It's a national park where a volcano erupted a VERY long time ago. This was actually my second visit here. My friend Megan came to visit in January, and we stopped on the way to the Grand Canyon. It was covered in snow at the time, so you really couldn't see anything. They ask for a $5 donation on the way in, but when I went with Megan, I had an active National Parks Pass ($50 for a year and it gets you and your party - up to 4 people- in to National Parks for free). If you buy this, do your research to find out if you'll use it first - many parks are state parks and are not free with this pass. When I went with Adam in August, we went during the once a year Free National Parks weekend, so it was free anyway. For all of the places we visited on this trip, it was a good weekend to go.
Anyway, Adam and I stopped just in the inside of the park to take pictures in front of the volcanic rock. Megan and I had gone further in, but from what we could tell, it was just weird rock and some strange formations. Again, cool to see, but you probably won't spend more than 10 minutes there. A lot of people camp out there, but I haven't figured out why yet. But, it was quiet and the air was cool, and it was a nice place to stretch our legs on the way to our next stop.
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