SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK - West | Signal Hill, Overlook, Discovery Trail, Gould Mine Trail | Tucson, AZ

[@lzwnn]

The saguaro are such magnificent guardians of desert secrets!

[@lethrbear32]

The spiral means snakes, youre in a snake area too.. The 4 legged animal is antelope, and you got the tortoise shell correct.

[@SomeplaceOrAnother]

It is amazing to see so many saguaro 🌵 in one place 😎😀

[@CactusAtlas]

They're a lot more dense there than here in Phoenix, that's for sure! 😅

[@user-pq9ee1uc6m]

I don’t know how this doesn’t have more views by now. Excellent video.

[@CactusAtlas]

Wow, thank you! That means a lot. 😊

[@jameshouse1268]

I’ve got a similar experience to your opening story. I didn’t visit Saguaro NP for many years, but after being there I’ve had several hiking trips there. Each one was amazing!..another one coming in sometime this month. The vast area covered with saguaro is outstanding. Your video captures the essence of the park and gives viewers a nice overview. Thanks, Glenn, and take care always.

[@CactusAtlas]

Thanks for sharing! We still need to get out to the other side of the park. 👍

[@jbthor9032]

Yeah that happened to me once back in 1985. A friend a I were rabbit hunting out in the Mojave desert and the sun was going down and getting dark out. Walking back to the car I ran into a cactus and a needle went right into my knee. It's painful trying to pull the needle out. Owie Owie Outch.

[@CactusAtlas]

OUCH. Totally relate. Anytime we do yard work it's highly likely that a large cactus needle will go through a shoe. Happened just a few weeks ago. 😅

[@jbthor9032]

Yep, cactus are pretty to look at, but don't touch.

[@suelittle1561]

I'm not used to seeing you without a hat on,. Lol

[@CactusAtlas]

😂 There's a few videos of ours where Glenn isn't wearing a hat but, yeah, it's sunny out here so usually there is one. 😄 Thanks so much for watching!

[@dorothylewis1207]

And he has HAIR! 😆😆😆

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Love Saguaro National Park but always manage to get there when its a little hot to do much hiking. Haven't checked out the eastern part though. Great video as always.

[@CactusAtlas]

Thank you so much! I can see it not being a great place for summer visits. Without a decent reprieve from the heat the idea of hiking doesn't appeal so much. 😅

[@marshmallows5641]

So beautiful!

[@CactusAtlas]

Thank you! 😊

[@gstiles7]

nice trip, get's me all nostalgic for my good ol' college days down there at U of A!

[@CactusAtlas]

Really so many places out there that we need to check out. So little time! 😂

[@andreasduerr74]

We will be visiting the southwest of the USA for the first time this summer and planning the places we want to visit is very much influenced by your excellent videos. Thank you so much for this!

[@CactusAtlas]

Wow! Thank you! So happy that we could help out in any way. We hope you have a great trip this summer and stay cool when you're here. Summers can be pretty hot. 😄

[@SwiftyTravels]

I’m so glad they preserved this area as a National park. I’ve been wanting to go back here. Its been many many years. Our mountains have similar ‘rock houses’ as we call it and they were built by the conservation corps- but I can’t remember why they were built. You were probably sand blasted but I thought the wind was very hypnotic 😍

[@CactusAtlas]

The houses have a distinct Civilian Conservation Corp look to them, I'll admit. Just need too go to the eastern side of the park now. 😊

[@adventureawaits5003]

Those cactus are amazing nice video 👍

[@CactusAtlas]

Thanks!

[@metingokbulut837]

no strings ingiliss 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷💯💯💯💯💯👍👍👍👍👍

[@DovieRuthAuthor]

All of your travels have got me collecting cacti. Haha! I thought they would take a long time to grow, but they're surprising me. I think a giant Saguaro might be out of the realm of possibilities.

[@CactusAtlas]

How awesome! We're planning on getting some different kinds for our yard eventually. If we can ever find time to get that project started. 😅 On top of being expensive, saguaro are pretty picky about where they grow. Going up north there's a distinct line in elevation where they just stop. We always like to try and spot the last cactus as we drive up. Fun fact - we almost named our channel "The Last Cactus" because of that game! 😂

[@sandin6689]

Visited there one summer...it was 115°. Magnificent. Make sure to visit the TITAN MISSILE MUSEUM south of Tucson

[@CactusAtlas]

Ouch! That's pretty warm especially without much shade out there. We've visited the Titan Missle Museum a number of times in the past... just haven't filmed it yet as it is a guided tour and requires a bit more planning b/t the two of us to make sure we get everything filmed the first time. It's being planned though! 😄

[@toshibavoodoo]

Just added this location to my BUCKET ROAD TRIP list!

[@CactusAtlas]

Awesome! We're hoping to making it back to the east side to compare parks. Not sure when but hopefully before things heat up too terribly out here. Thanks for watching! 😄

[@IronHorsefan1869]

75 years is exactly when they start growing arms

[@Linda-akaLinnie]

What an awesome video! I hit that subscribe button quickly!!!

[@CactusAtlas]

Awesome! Thank you! Welcome aboard! 😄

[@JillianCampsArizona]

I personally prefer the East section but the west has so much to offer. I just wonder why they didn’t pave the road in the western part, it doesn’t make sense when the road is paved on the east side?! Love these hikes however! 😊

[@CactusAtlas]

We were hoping to visit both sides but ran out of time that trip. All the more reason to go back! 🤣 Really not sure why one side is more developed than the other.

[@dorothylewis1207]

Those drawings tell where the "water" is. 🤪🤪🤪

[@robertallen6710]

Not an expert either Glenn, but have studied petroglyphs enough to know there are definitely some archaic ones in there. Archaic meaning from the time of Christ backwards. There are certain 'designs' that more recent natives avoided duplicating for one reason or another. That 'wagon wheel' one @4:50 is similar to examples dated 5000 years ago or more. Those spirals are ancient too...nice video and thanks!

[@CactusAtlas]

Thanks! Glad you like our video. 😊 I was actually watching a documentary (granted on a different group in a different area) last night while Glenn was busy and I've got some different ideas about the meaning (or use) behind some of the petroglyphs but I imagine similar shapes meant different things from group to group. Probably won't ever know for sure unless time travel becomes possible. 😅

[@desert-walker]

You walked right by 1 million petroglyphs in that wash before you start going up to that house wonder why you didn’t show that?😊

[@CactusAtlas]

Sometimes it's due to a lack of time. Sometimes it's due to bigger plans later on, and keeping the focus of a video to one thing. Sometimes we just miss things. We always enjoy returning to places though. 😄👍

[@markgorton5865]

Thanks for the tour of the West park. Going to have to get there soon. I need more vacation time to make a dent in the growing list of places you are making me want to go to. No excuse to not check this one off this year though. Did you get to an Eegees while in Tucson?

[@CactusAtlas]

No, no egees this time, but they have one in Casa Grande that is on the way home that we often stop at. I hear you about vacation time. It’s hard finding time to do this stuff!

[@graciel3725]

Hey Glen, where did you live before Arizona?

[@DC-ef8op]

what month is this

[@CactusAtlas]

We list the dates we film in the description of each video to help viewers. 😊

[@lalalisa9307]

I always thought it was just graffiti because they didn’t have a lot in their world at that time besides nature stuff and designs and I think that it’s just young teenagers bored