North boundarySidenote: When I saw, on the sign, that this place was a Biosphere Reserve, I immediately thought of Pauly Shore. Is that wrong?
This is a great place to get a feel for the Sonoran Desert. A mix of mountains, broad valleys and the desert landscape. While many would think that the desert is lifeless, nothing could be further from the truth. The desert is arid, not lifeless. As such, you'll find a vast array of unique plants and animals you won't see anywhere else. The flora and fauna are perfectly adapted to limited precipitation, searing heat and the cold nights of a desert winter. I highly recommend that everyone spend a little time in the desert at least once in their life. Good for the spirit.
This is a great place to get a feel for the Sonoran Desert. A mix of mountains, broad valleys and the desert landscape. While many would think that the desert is lifeless, nothing could be further from the truth. The desert is arid, not lifeless. As such, you'll find a vast array of unique plants and animals you won't see anywhere else. The flora and fauna are perfectly adapted to limited precipitation, searing heat and the cold nights of a desert winter. I highly recommend that everyone spend a little time in the desert at least once in their life. Good for the spirit.
Visitor Center
The omnipresent, Visitor Center relief map 
The Ajo Mountains 
Mt. Tillotson
Desert landscape
Organ Pipe cactus
Saguaro Cactus amid a Palo Verde tree
The beautiful, green bark of the Palo Verde tree
Cholla cactus
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The desert definately looks like a peaceful and interesting place to visit. As you mentioned, once you are there, you see more than one would realise and a perfect time of year to visit such a place too.
As always, great photo's.
Uh by the way...no biggie but it's cholla.
GD it. And that's after one correction already. I was going on memory and originally had "chullo." Then, changed it to the incorrect "Chollo." Correction has been made, thanks Anon.
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