Went for an early morning hike today at Papago Park. These mountains are smack dab in the middle of the city and they are just so unique. Read the comments below for some more info....
@milaniet ya, it's kinda crazy. The landscape has been inhabited for hundred's of years and there's native indian ruins scattered around.
I know that it has a WWII history, and I just learned this from wikipedia:
During World War II, the park housed a POW camp and contained as many as 3,100 prisoners from 1942 to 1944. It was also the site of the largest mass escape from any United States prison camp in World War II. The Great Papago Escape occurred on December 23, 1944 when 25 prisoners, including German U-boat commander Jürgen Wattenberg, escaped the camp using a 178-foot tunnel and made their way to the Arizona desert. Many prisoners quickly realized that they knew nothing about the landscape or climate and turned themselves back in.
I know that it has a WWII history, and I just learned this from wikipedia:
During World War II, the park housed a POW camp and contained as many as 3,100 prisoners from 1942 to 1944. It was also the site of the largest mass escape from any United States prison camp in World War II. The Great Papago Escape occurred on December 23, 1944 when 25 prisoners, including German U-boat commander Jürgen Wattenberg, escaped the camp using a 178-foot tunnel and made their way to the Arizona desert. Many prisoners quickly realized that they knew nothing about the landscape or climate and turned themselves back in.