Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

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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

Neighboring refuge to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

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DarkSky InternationalPlaceNonprofit governing authority on dark-sky conservation.
Chimney Rock National MonumentSightLast place certified as Dark Sky Park prior.
Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife RefugeSightNeighboring refuge to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Las Playas IntaglioSightIndigenous geoglyph damaged amid border wall expansion.
Kitt Peak National ObservatorySightWith more than twenty optical and two radio…

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