Why Chiricahua National Monument is worth visiting. About 27 million years ago a savage volcanic event lashed this corner of the world. The eruption, a thousand times more powerful than Mount St ...

In Chiricahua National Monument, the hoodoos, ... which snakes through a labyrinth of rhyolite columns to the summit, granting one of the most glorious vistas of the national park.

Chiricahua surveyed patients across both medical and dental clinics to find out if they would be amenable to such an approach. Of the 642 adult patients surveyed, 61.8% said yes.

The spider, named Aphonopelma jacobii was first seen in 2018 in the Chiricahua Mountains in Cochise County, but testing to confirm that this is indeed a new species of tarantula led to the ...

Chiricahua leopard frogs need permanent water for reproduction, but that's increasingly hard to come by: Southwest riparian areas are often destroyed by livestock grazing, groundwater pumping, water ...

The only campground at the popular Chiricahua National Monument has been closed indefinitely. Two factors led to the closure: fire and flooding. Last year's massive Horseshoe 2 Fire burned over ...

Lead worker Dennise Lopez welcomes customers to the new state-of-the-art Chiricahua Apache Plaza travel center. (Headlight staff photo by Billy Armendariz) In 2008, tribal officials had plans for ...

The Chiricahua National Park Act would elevate the status of Chiricahua National Monument, if passed. The monument was first established by presidential proclamation in 1924, nearly 100 years ago ...

A bill meant to redesignate Chiricahua National Monument in Cochise County as a national park has come one step closer to fruition. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ...

Chiricahua is located about 120 miles east of Tucson, Arizona. The high-elevation park is open year-round, ... perched atop the 7,300-foot summit of Sugarloaf Mountain. The road to the trailhead ...

The scientists who found the spider say it can be found in Cave Creek Canyon, high-elevation areas near Onion Saddle and Barfoot Park. They say it is the only tarantula in the Chiricahua Mountains ...