21 Saguaro - 2022

Vacation 2022

Saguaro National Park

I found the Saguaro National Park(s) to be quite fascinating. I placed the ‘s’ in parenthesis as there are actually 2 distinct locations; one to the East of Tucson, Arizona and the other on the West side.

The saguaro cactus are the ones that look like people standing with their arms held up, as if at gun point. Actually, most of the saguaro, if they are old enough to have the ‘arms’, have more than two arms. The Western Park had more of the traditional looking saguaros, while the Western Park had some with the arms hanging down.

The Western Park seemed more rugged than the Eastern. Everything everywhere in the Western Park appeared to want to get you. The Eastern Park is actually thinner and has more trails and bike paths.

It would have been neat to see the park with the pipe organ cactus, but it was simply to far away from my bucket list and wanna hit parks. Tucson didn’t have anything of real interest to us, so Saguaro National Park(s) was the only reason for us to be here. There is virtually nothing much else around that required our attention. That being said, I would recommend that everyone go and see Saguaro National Park(s) sometime. Simply amazing.

June 4, 2022

Start – We began our Saguaro NP tour in the Western Park. The road that travels to and through the park is a state road, so at time in your in the Western Park and other times you're outside the park. You can pretty much tell when you're in or out by whether or not residential homes are present.

10:34 – We stop to get our first close up view of a Saguaro with some blooms left on it.

21:38 – We’re getting deep into the Western Park now and there are no more residential buildings.

26:50 – The Visitor’s Center of the Western Park.

35:15 - Bajada Loop Drive. A rough rock road that travels through a very thick cactus grove.

39:55 – Sideways video #1.

1:07:55 – Heading on over to the Eastern part of Saguaro National Park.

1:10:43 – Entering Saguaro National Park on the East side of Tucson.

1:22:30 – What was that?

1:28:57 – Hello Mr. Ranger sir.

1:38:36 – On the road again.

1:47:13 – Selfie time.

1:48:47 – Sideways video #2.

1:53:42 – Sideways video #3.

2:03:50 – Goodbye Saguaro National Park.

Would I recommend Saguaro National Park? You bet! Put it on your bucket list.