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South Mountain Park preserves in a natural state a mountainous area of 16,283 acres (65.89 km 2) or approximately 25.5 sq mi (66 km 2) of native desert vegetation. Originally called Phoenix Mountain Park, it was formed in 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge sold its initial 13,000 acres (53 km 2 ) to the city of Phoenix for $17,000.
[2] [3] The construction of the highway ultimately left a gash in the range at the border of the Gila River Indian Community within the City of Phoenix and South Mountain Preserve. The South Mountain Preserve is part of the Phoenix Parks System and is the second largest municipal park in Arizona, and the 13th largest municipal park in the world ...
State Route 347 (SR 347) is a 28.69 miles (46.17 km) long, north–south state highway in central Arizona. The route begins at SR 84 and heads north. It passes through Maricopa, meeting SR 238. The route ends at an interchange with Interstate 10 (I-10) south of Chandler.
At the time, the Chandler Arizonan newspaper called the house, built in the foothills of the South Mountain, "unmatched in scope and size". [8] The house was noted to be a 12,000 square feet (1,100 m 2) winter residence, designed by prominent Phoenix architect Lester Mahoney, with construction starting in 1921. [8]
Loop 202 has three officially designated sections along its route; the Red Mountain Freeway, the SanTan Freeway, and the Congressman Ed Pastor Freeway, also known as the South Mountain Freeway. The Red Mountain Freeway runs from the Mini Stack Interchange with Interstate 10 (I-10) and State Route 51 (SR 51) in Phoenix to the SuperRedTan ...
According to the Phoenix Historic Property Register, [2] Scorpion Gulch was built in 1936, and was first listed on the historic preservation register in October 1990. Historical photographs [3] show a sign on the original building entitled, "South Mountain Trading Post", under which jewelry, Indian curios, and leather goods are advertised.
Camelback Road runs directly south of Phoenix's famous Camelback Mountain and the Phoenician Resort. Further west, the upscale Biltmore district of Phoenix is located along Camelback Road, including the Arizona Biltmore Hotel (to the north), Biltmore Fashion Park , as well as one of Phoenix's primary business districts (sometimes called the ...
South Mountain Freeway, part of Arizona State Route 202 in metropolitan Phoenix; South Mountain Oil Field, near Santa Paula, California; South Mountain Railroad (Cumberland), a railway line in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania South Mountain Iron Company, a Pine Grove Furnace owner that established the South Mountain Railroad