Usery Mountain Park, Mesa Arizona

On the 14th of December we left Sierra Vista and headed to Usery Mountain Park in Mesa AZ. for a week. Usery is up on a hillside and has several small mountains in the park. It has great views of the east valley of the Phoenix area. The really beautiful thing about the RV area is that the spaces are very far apart from each other. The park has lots of cactus including saguaro, barrel, and cholla. There are also lots of hiking oportunities but we were short on time and the weather, although warm, was rather wet while we were here.

OOOWWWW, Cholla hurt.

Sign on a local mountain, long ago pointing aviators who had strayed.

Daughter said "I thought this type of cactus were only in cartoons".

Views of city lights

Black Light in the foreground is kids looking for scorpions. Big lights in middle was the bath house.

One of many trails.

I grew up in Mesa and primarily in East Mesa which is close to where Usery is. the second day we were here, we had some fun checking out all of the changes that have happened in the area in the last 20 years. There is even a new freeway system that is very helpful for getting around, but is taking some time to get used to. We took a long afternoon drive to take the kids to see all of our old hangouts, and schools and homes that we used to live in. We finished the night by taking them out for pizza at the most famous pizza place in Mesa (see next post)