We leave Silver City today and continue our journey west. Our next stop is Willcox, Arizona. What’s in Willcox …. Not much. We originally wanted to stay closer to Tucson for Christmas, unfortunately our preferred campgrounds were all booked. To ensure we had a place to stay over the holidays we initially booked the Willcox KOA until the fourth of January, figuring we could keep an eye on the availability of other campgrounds and move if something popped up.
On our departure from Silver City, we backtracked thirty miles to visit Rock City State Park. The park is approximately 1200 acres of sculptured rock formations in the shape of Pinnacles and boulders rising to 30 and 40 feet into the air, creating the appearance of a downtown metropolis.
This city was created 34.9 million years ago by a super volcano classified as a VEI 8 eruption that distributed ash over 1000 cubic kilometres; To put this into perspective, Mount saint Helen’s in 1980 distributed ash over 1 cubic Kilometer. The ash became a tuff bed (similar to what’s covering Pompeii), and over millions of years, erosion sculpted the rock formations to what they are today. We hiked the formations with the pups for a short time before having a little lunch.
The Park was very cool to explore and we may have explored it longer than we did, but we feared to pups would do something stupid, like stick their nose into a cool spot where a snake, spider or scorpion was hiding. From here we headed to Wilcox and made ourselves comfortable for the coming Christmas Holiday by decoration in and around the Rv.
If anyone ever wants an amazing place to camp, look into this place.
Rock City.
We head for Arizona today,
