Watch Now: Fall Colors in the Santa Catalina Mountains
- Rebecca Sasnett, Arizona Daily Star
Rebecca Sasnett
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- Updated
The leaves along E. Mount Lemmon Hwy, trails in the Santa Catalina Mountains and Summerhaven have started to change their colors during the fall season. Places you can see the leaves changing are at Gordon Hirabayashi Campground, Palisades Visitor Center, Bear Wallow Trail, Summerhaven and Mint Spring Trailhead. Video by Rebecca Sasnett, Arizona Daily Star.
Rebecca Sasnett
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For Star subscribers: An abandoned golf course could soon find new life as a nature preserve, with impressive views of the Catalina Mountains, “phenomenal native vegetation,” petroglyphs, walking trails and wildlife. First, though, community conservationists must raise $1.8 million in two months to buy it.
Mount Lemmon is bursting with color right now, though the leaves aren't quite at their peak yet. Head north of Tucson and into the Catalina Mountains for a taste of autumn.
A large storm system moving across the Western United States is expected to bring colder temperatures to the Tucson area.
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