Tucson Links
San Carlos
Cross-Border Adventure!
El Pinacate
The Seri Coast
Adobe Doobie-Do
Desert Cats
Obscene Cactus Flowers
Tucson at Dusk
Hikes in the Santa Catalina Mountains
Hikes in the Tucson Mountains
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
The Borderlands: Arivaca
The Borderlands: Atacosa
Sonoran Summer
Monsoon!
Valley Fever
The Cat Mother of Coronado Heights
Swim the Desert
 
Atacosa Lookout

A rough gravel road just side of the border leads to a little-used trail to Atacosa Lookout. The peach-colored CCC cabin tops a stone pinnacle with unforgettable views from the Santa Catalinas to the Sea of Cortez ... not to mention the Edward Abbey Memorial Shithouse. Abbey spent the summer of 1968 as a forest ranger at Atacosa Lookout, and wrote about it in Confessions of a Barbarian.


Right: Atacosa Lookout

Below: Looking south towards Mexico


Ocatillo Forest (and the road to Nogales)

The Edward Abbey Memorial Shithouse

Rolli (Imhoff) and Keith McHenry

Rolli and Butterfly