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The Grand Canyon State or Copper State, Arizona takes its name from the Indian word Arizonac, meaning "little spring" or "young spring"

Located in the Southwest, Arizona is bordered by Utah (north), Colorado (northeast), New Mexico (east), California & Nevada (west, across the Colorado River)

At 114,007 square miles, Arizona is the 6th biggest state. The highest elevation is Humphreys Peak in Coconino County at 12,633 feet. The lowest elevation is the Colorado River in Yuma County at 70 feet.

Arizona’s clean, clear, dry air and warm weather attracts older people looking for a retirement home as well as people with respiratory health problems. The state’s population has tripled in the last thirty years. Today, one out of three Arizonans live in booming Phoenix and Tucson.

The highest temperature recorded was 128° while the Lowest was -40°

National Parks & Monuments include Canyon de Chelly, Casa Grande Ruins, Chiricahua, Hohokam Pima, Montezuma Castle, Navajo, Organ Pipe, Petrified Forest, Pipe Spring, Rainbow, Saguaro/Sunset Crater, Tonto, Tuzigoot, Walnut Canyon, Wupatki, Saguaro, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest.