I noticed this statue early today as I was leaving Springerville for my six-hour drive back home…read more It's next to the McDonald's exit, so I pulled into the next parking lot so I could read the plaques. The Madonna of the Trail is one of 12 statues erected along the National Old Trails Road, one in each state the historic route travels through. This statue deserves a better location in town. The trees around the statue hide it from view.

The Madonna of the trail is such an inspiring statue. The women of the early west endured and…read moreendured to settle the territories. This statue and the others along the trail to calif. If you ever get the chance to see the play quilters it really describes the Madonna of the trail and their lives.

We did the Upper Dwelling hike. Took way too long (we could have completed it round trip in an hour…read moreor so) but it took almost 3. We are still fortunate to have gotten a reservation, and did enjoy the exclusive access. One interesting thing, is that the guides refused to answer if human remains had ever been found in the park, saying they weren't. After researching at home, they have, according to this 2014 register published by the National Monument themselves: [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-14644; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]. Don't know why they didn't want to talk about it. Also, the guide said Navajo Nation capital is in Shiprock, NM, but it's in Window Rock, AZ.

A great stop to make when out in the area. We did the lower dwelling as we didn't have a…read morereservation for the upper. I would say if you only plan to do the lower dwelling I wouldn't recommend going super out of the way for this as it's a pretty quick stop. The hike up wasn't bad, but my husband and I are active. It was really interesting being able to get so close to history, and the views from up there are amazing! This has been on my bucket list for awhile and I'm glad I finally get to check it off.

Cool to see this large dam, but what you really want to see is behind that great big wall (The…read moreamazing lake and bridge). Last stop on our way through the mountains. P.S. the restrooms there are no different than a port-a-potty, except the fact that there was no soap to be found.

A must-do stop on the Apache trail route. We didn't spend a ton of time here, but it was…read moreinteresting to see and to read the few placards posted about the history of the dam. We learned some interesting and new facts.

This roadside memorial has grown to 2 covered picnic areas in the last few years…read more Tom Mix was a very famous movie cowboy In the era of Roy Rogers. The story I remember is he was driving his convertible with his feet and went off the road right here. Another 100 yards is Tim Mix wash. Still a clean spot to pay your respects.

I was too young to have seen any of Tom Mix's 300 or so movies, but he was an icon of the old west…read moreto my father. His plaque at the memorial reads "In memory of Tom Mix whose spirit left his body on this spot. And whose characterization and portrayals in life served to better fix memories of the old West in the minds of living men."

Excellent & informative tour! We called ahead to make sure there was room for our 9 AM tour, which…read moreI would recommend since the afternoon tour had 30 + people scheduled. We watched the video before the tour that was very informative and enlightening. Our tour guide, Mike, took us on a short bus ride out to the site, during which we saw bald eagles and their nest. Once at the site, Mike provided a ton of information about the site, petroglyphs, construction, and astronomical significance. He was a wealth of information and referenced many archeologists who have visited and/or written about the site. Well worth the time to visit!

We went on the summer solstice hike and it was so fun! I'm very thankful we got to participate.read more

Fascinating! We especially appreciated the historian who gave such an informative tour of the…read moremuseum. Do not miss this attraction in Florence Arizona!

Very well curated museum. Small, but very engaging. Covered several important points in the…read moretown/building's history. The guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. We even got to attend a speaker series that happened that morning. Also got some great recommendations for lunch nearby.

Don't be surprised it's not a school it is a museum. The volunteer docent walked right out of the…read moredoor and greeted us inside. Unfortunately the place was about to close in five minutes. She was so accommodating and told us "Take your time, I'll stay open a little later for you." My husband and I raced the museum in about 30 minutes. There is so much to see so plan on a few hours. Every corridor and room surprises you with exhibit after exhibit. You can learn about mining, Elected Officials, Mexicans, the San Carlos Apaches, Serbians that migrated from Montenegro. The list can go on, and on. For me personally, I loved stepping into the past of the old school house. School buildings are just not made that way anymore. The plan is to finish the rehabilitation of the building and expand more exhibits on the second floor. The have a lecture series about Women and Mining coming up. It's not often you get to learn about the roles women have taken that are typically male centered jobs. This place is humble and not fancy like some museums I feel it's a perfect reflection of the community. You will learn so much about the local areas history and traditions.

Rating this a historic site, this is pretty cool. The city hall is situated in a park filled with…read morelarge trees on Main Street, right out of a Rockwell painting. The building began life as a school and was remodeled to its current art deco style in the 1930's. There are plaques and monuments on the grounds. Because this is still a functioning city hall, many areas are not accessible to the public.

There's a lot to state about this town as somebody who moved here 3 years ago…read more this place has a lot of negatives to it. some of the cons are as follows 1) customer service and the businesses and service here is bad, you have quite a few people that will try to rip you off or just give substandard service, examples are as follows - the tradesmen in town don't show up or communicate and if they do there's a 50/50 chance their gonna charge you top dollar for services rendered or try to hustle you for top dollar while giving bad service or leaving a mess or damaging things while they do it, the cherry on top their probably gonna be rude while they do it. 2) if it not getting ripped off or treated badly then your getting poor accommodations, there's a lot of places in town that for the most par that don't fix or keeps things in repair, quite a few of the rental apartments or housing options are run down, always look through the google reviews of a place and compare notes to make sure the same things your noticing aren't popping up when your vetting business owners or landlords. 3)this town is boring and there's nothing to do unless you like to get drunk, go to church or do outdoor activities, mind you there are other more hidden things you can find to do but you wont learn about them unless you do so searching and learn about them via word of mouth but even then your gonna run into problems with the people your gonna deal with while doing those things. 4) a lot of the people here are weird, only way I could describe it. you got a lot of poverty, a lot of people never lived or went anywhere else so their uncultured and this is all they know and they have "small town mentality" aka this is the way we've always done things, you also get a sense that a lot of the people you meet peaked in high school because they act like high schoolers, if its not that, a huge portion of the people who have a lot of pull in the town are Mormons and the rest of the people are kinda white trash to be honest there's very few working professionals that don't fit the white trash or mormon check box, last but not least you have a lot of drug use, and metal health issue and people that got raised in dysfunctional families here and they all openly talk about it, add all this on top of each other and cliquish/ peaked in high school attitudes and your gonna be dealing with a lot of undesirable people here that aren't chill people to be around, a lot of them suffer from mental health issues, personality disorders, insecurity and ego issues which are gonna rub you the wrong way . 5)gossips galore, a lot of people here talk to much and are overly invested in the people around them, coming from a big city environment you notice people like this and start to avoid actively dealing with the people you notice who gossip about others so much and actively avoid them, the problem is a huge portion of people in town are gossips, the funny part is a lot of these people who participate in this behavior if you watch them and size them up their lives usually suck more then the people their gossiping about which is ironic because if they spent their free time working on themselves and fixing themselves instead of gossiping about others then their lives would improve. 6) lower standards across the board examples-a lot of fat unhealthy people-poor customer service-poor quality food at places to eat at-poor work ethic people that want to charge you top dollar-a lot of people can't drive here-poor quality roads-75 percent of the business aren't worth doing business with-lack of quality people to spend time with-not a lot of decent jobs unless you count the mine or law enforcement-poor work ethic characters people even though its a highly christian town. if you move here and are not from here some advice I would give is this. first off "don't if you can help it" but if you decided to do so anyways, be prepared to get ripped off, the mine drove the cost of rent up to 700 dollars a month for a room to rent due to the mine paying 700 dollars a month to their workers to pay for a place so everybody in town is price gouging for rentals here due to that. if you buy a house hire a decent out of are inspector, a lot of the people here don't take care of there properties and you might get ripped off due to the local inspects not doing their job properly, you could end up with a lemon of a house that needs a lot of repairs. if your looking for women try to go as young as you can, a lot of the women in town are single moms, and have been passed around hard....thats why I say your better off pulling women who are younger, also a lot of the women here got raised in a bad environment so your gonna have to vet them for personality disorders, mental health issues or various other things like drug use or being raised in piss poor family environments. next is the people, take your time and slowly vet the people you deal with in this town, a lot of them are low class peeps