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The ride we've been waiting nearly a year for...MOUNT LEMMON! On one of our rides through Arizona last year, we had planned to go see Mount Lemmon, when we were redirected to a new adventure, completely bypassing it. Having explored the beautiful state of Arizona on motorcycles for years, we found the roads leading up to Mount Lemmon Ski Valley to be some of our favorite riding to date. With a mix of long sweeping turns, tight canyons, and thousands of feet in elevation change leading into the snow, we saw it all, and it is definitely a destination we will return to.
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ABOUT MOUNT LEMMON
Mount Lemmon, with a summit elevation of 9,159 feet (2,792 m), is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains. It is located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona, United States. Mount Lemmon was named for botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon, who trekked to the top of the mountain with her husband and E. O. Stratton, a local rancher, by horse and foot in 1881. Mount Lemmon is also known as Babad Do'ag, or Frog Mountain to the Tohono O'odham. It is reported that Mount Lemmon Ski Valley, on the mountain's northeastern side, receives 200 inches (508 cm) of snow annually.
At the peak is the Mount Lemmon Observatory, which was formerly the site of a USAF radar base of the Air Defense Command,[11] and the building that formerly housed a military emergency radar tracking station for landing the Space Shuttle at White Sands Missile Range. Although the United States military had a presence on the mountain for several decades all their facilities have been abandoned and were given to the United States Forest Service. The area and buildings that makes up the Mount Lemmon Station Observatory are leased from the Forest Service by the University of Arizona. The telescopes on the mountain are still used for astronomical research today by organizations such as the Catalina Sky Survey, the Mount Lemmon Sky Center,[12] the University of Arizona Astronomy Camp program,[13] the University of Arizona, and the University of Minnesota. The educational resources at the top of the mountain make it a unique research and teaching destination.
THE MOUNT LEMMON HIGHWAY
The Catalina Highway, also called the Mount Lemmon Highway, as well as the Hitchcock Highway (after Frank Harris Hitchcock), runs up the Santa Catalina Mountains from the east side of Tucson up to Summerhaven, at the top of Mt. Lemmon. The beautiful, curving road is a favorite drive for tourists, for locals escaping summer's heat and cyclists, and has been recently designated as the Sky Island Parkway, part of the US National Scenic Byway system.
ABOUT 2LANELIFE
We travel the country on our Harley Davidsons, exploring some of the best roads the country has to offer, with no end in sight. Our goal is to share all of the neat history and attractions across the back roads, aka the 2Lanes of America. Along this journey, we meet tons of amazing people, and learn something new every time. We are here to inspire travel!
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18 янв 2022
