Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

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OutsideMay 19, 2026

Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Earns Dark Sky Status

Just weeks after Customs and Border Protection confirmed that a roughly 1,000-year-old Indigenous geoglyph had been damaged amid a second border wall expansion in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, the region finally caught a rare piece of good news. On May 15, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, located two hours west of Tucson, was officially certified as a … Continued

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