Chiricahua National Monument is a fee area, but just before the entrance booth, there is a road to the right. Follow this road a couple miles and there are several primitive campsites. Pinery Canyon Road / Road#42 Campsites on Pinery Canyon Road Near the summit... Between Chiricahua National Monument and Paradise, Arizona IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW WHAT FIRE RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT BEAR FACTS This is bear country. PHOTO HERE Crazy rattlesnake attacking the car Chiricahua National Monument Has anybody heard of a rattlesnake attacking a vehicle? There was a rattlesnake in the road and we pulled beside it to take a photo, then he started attacking the car. This very aggressive rattlesnake slammed into the car door several times. Didn't get the best photograph, being afraid he might come through the open window. RATTLESNAKE FACTS Chiricahua National Monument Chiricahua National Monument

DIRECTIONS: From Sunizona, Arizona take Hwy.181 Follow the signs to Chiricahua National Monument. Just before you enter Chiricahua National Monument Turn right on Pinery Canyon Road / Road#42 The first couple miles are private lands. (Pinery Canyon Road continues through to Paradise) From I-5 exit at Wilcox. Take Hwy.186 south Turn east on Hwy.181 The road towards Paradise, Arizona ROAD CONDITIONS: Pinery Canyon Road is a rough dirt road. Some serious washboards the first couple miles. If you continue all the way through to Paradise, there are some washes and creeks you have to transverse... Passenger cars can make it with good weather and caution. Perfect desert house... Along road towards Paradise, Arizona DISTANCES: From Hwy.80 and Hwy.181 Chiricahua National Monument 26 miles Drinking water at Chiricahua National Monument (At the Visitor Center) Also see: CHERRY CREEK Also see: CITY OF ROCKS Also see: COCHISE STRONGHOLD Also see: COCHISE STRONGHOLD WEST Also see: HIGHWAY 191 Also see: MESCAL Also see: TURKEY CREEK ROAD Geronimo Surrendered on Sept. 6th 1886 in Skeleton Canyon and forever ended Indian warfare in the United States. Memorial erected in 1934 by the city of Douglas. RATTLESNAKE RANCH We expected a pit full of rattlesnakes and some crazy person... instead we found a museum in the middle of the desert. The Boneyard Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is home to thousands of outdated planes and helicopters mothballed by the United States Air Force and other allied forces. The 2,600 acre facility is the size of 1,300 football pitches and sprawled across the desert in Tucson, Arizona and houses the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) This 60 year-old facility is America's only storehouse for out-of-service aircraft. CAMPGROUND INDEX Complete free campground listing CAMPING ADVICE AND TIPS TOURIST PHOTOS www.eugenecarsey.com dispersedcampgrounds.com Free campgrounds and camping ARIZONA CAMPGROUND DIRECTORY CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST PINERY CANYON ROAD CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT