Painted Rocks in Arizona

Group of boulders with hundreds of petroglyphs.

Lyman Lake Petroglyphs

Petroglyph sites with very diverse cliff drawings from different periods – from 6000 BC to 1400 AD. Some specialists consider that part of the drawings is associated with shamanism.

S P Crater

Well-defined cinder cone with dark lava flow extending from it. This symmetric cone rises 250 m above surroundings.

Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site

In this place, people of Clovis culture killed mammoths around 9,000 BC. There have been found bones of other extinct animals as well.

Giant Logs and Long Logs

Some of the best examples of large petrified logs of Araucarioxylon arizonicum in varied colors from the Late Triassic period.

Baboquivari Cave

Sacred cave of Tohono O’Odham people, center of their cosmology. According to their beliefs here lives I’itoi – protector of the people. Nearby are petroglyphs.

Lava River Cave near Flagstaff

The longest lava cave in Arizona, 1.21 km long.

Grand Canyon Caverns

Cave with enormous cave rooms. Contains remnants of some extinct animals, e.g. ground sloth. Caves can be accessed through a 64 m deep shaft while the natural entrance has been sealed off as it is a sacred place to Hualapai people.

Kartchner Caverns

This gorgeous cave was discovered in 1974. The cave contains amazing and even unique cave formations, the process of their formation continues. Here is located one of the world’s longest soda straws: 647 cm long! The length of the cave passages is some 3.9 – 4 km.

Colossal Cave

Large cave system with a total length of explored passages at 5.6 km.