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Sedona Arizona Visitors Enjoy Flagstaff Festival of Science
It had feathers, but scientists don't think it could fly. It was found deep in an ancient sea, but scientists don't think it lived in water...
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Museum of Northern Arizona Presents Lost Dinosaur Exhibit
A once-in-a-lifetime find in 2000 by Museum of Northern Arizona paleontologists led to the discovery of the most complete therizinosaur skeleton ever found...
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Arizona is Bat-Tastic!
Once a month, by the full moon, people gather at the Flagstaff Arboretum. There's nothing creepy going on here though, just a bunch of folks curious about the mysterious critters that live right...
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Wonder Takes Flight At Flagstaff's Arboretum
Flagstaff, Arizona: With its 200 acres of wildflower meadows, cultivated gardens, natural forest and pond, The Arboretum at Flagstaff has always been a favorite place for bird lovers...
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Lowell Observatory
Astronomy enthusiasts must check out the Lowell Observatory on Mars Hill in Flagstaff. Here, you can gaze into the unbelievably starry night sky through the late 19th-century Clark Telescope, which was used by Air Force and Apollo astronauts to plan moon landings...
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Get The Hole Story At Arizona's Meteor Crater
The open stretch of high desert between Flagstaff and Winslow may seem like the most uneventful place on earth, but 50,000 years ago, it was the site of an event of cosmic proportions. That's when a meteorite weighing around 300,000 tons ripped through Earth's...
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Flagstaff, Arizona,
Truly a Unique Southwest Community
If you leave Sedona by winding up the lush oasis of Oak Creek Canyon, you'll ascend about 2000 feet and find yourself in a strikingly different landscape, and a truly unique Southwestern community.
Flagstaff is a place to escape the desert's heat, to enjoy the flavor of the Old West as well as a lively urban scene, and to connect with nature in some of the most beautiful and peaceful places you'll ever set foot in. Just about an hour away from the Grand Canyon and 40 minutes from Sedona, Flagstaff is an ideal spot from which to base your exploration of Northern Arizona.
The native people of the Colorado Plateau have been living in the Flagstaff area for thousands of years, long before European settlers began to enjoy the resources of its abundant forests and rich meadows, and before Phoenix residents began building summer homes to escape the Valley of the Sun's blistering heat. (At 7,000 feet above sea level, summer temperatures in Flagstaff are regularly 25 degrees cooler than those in Phoenix.) While the previous commerce conduits of the railroad and Route 66 still criss-cross the town, Northern Arizona University, with about 18,000 students, is the main economic engine in Flagstaff today.
Looming over the town is the serrated profile of the San Francisco Peaks, with Humphrey's Peak at the highest point of 12,643 feet. These mountains are sacred to the Navajo and the Hopi people, long regarded as a source of physical and spiritual medicine and as the place where the world of man and the gods intersect. The Hopi's Kachinas, spirit-beings who are said to intercede in nearly every aspect of man's life, reside among the Peaks for half the year, then descend to maintain the natural order of the world.
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