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Willcox Playa Wildlife Area

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Willcox Playa Wildlife Area

Willcox Playa Wildlife Area

Willcox Playa Wildlife Area

Willcox Playa Wildlife Area

Willcox Playa Wildlife Area

Willcox Playa Wildlife Area

Willcox Playa Wildlife Area

Willcox Playa Wildlife Area

Phone:
+1 602-942-3000

Address:
S Kansas Settlement Rd, Willcox, AZ 85643, USA

The Willcox Playa is a large endorheic dry lake or sink adjacent to Willcox, Arizona in Cochise County, in the southeast corner of the state. It is part of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion and is the remnant of a Pleistocene era pluvial Lake Cochise. Portions of the dry lake bed have been used as a bombing range by the US military. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1966 for its fossil pollen captured underground, the thousands of sandhill cranes that roost in the area and the largest diversity of tiger beetles in the United States.
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Day Tripping to Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona

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In this video, I take you along on our day trip to the Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona.

We leave a free dry camping spot in the Willcox Playa Wildlife Area and take the RV to Sage Brush RV Park in Willcox. Then head down Highway 186 to Chiricahua.

The video contains highlights of our drive and a bunch of still photos I captured. Also, we drive through the only campground in the park to show how tight it is and two sharp dips that eliminate camping by RVS over 29 feet long.

It's an amazing park full of great hikes and epic scenery. Two thumbs up!

Finally, in the end, we get out of the truck in the middle of some ranch land along 186 to give you a look at a great sunset scene.

Link to our previous visit to Whitewater Draw to view the Sandhill Cranes take flight -

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2012 Show 2 AZ Wildlife Views

Arizona Wildlife Views Show 2 - 2012. Join host Jim Paxon for the latest season of Arizona Wildlife Views. AZ Wildlife Views Show 2 explores the wildlife crossings on Highway 93 just south of the Hoover Dam, an investigation on the deer herd health on the north Kaibab Plateau and the first ever stocking of catchable Gila Trout in Arizona.
Arizona Wildlife Views is produced by the Information Branch of the Arizona Game and Fish Department. Producers: Gary Schafer and Carol Lynde.

Sandhill Cranes at Whitewater Draw, Arizona 8 November 2009

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