Description:
Upper Sabino Canyon Road, also known as the
1 Sabino Canyon Shuttle Route, and the
Catalina Highway to Mount Lemmon offer a
variety of spectacular geologic features.
Because of the relatively sparse vegetation in the lower
part of the range, most of these features are easy to recognize
and photograph.
Some of these features are common throughout this
southern part of the Santa Catalina Mountains. Others
occur in many other parts of the American Southwest.
This booklet is your field guide to the geology of this
spectacular mountain landscape. All of the geologic features
described in the text can be reached by short walks
from the Sabino Canyon Shuttle Route or the Catalina
Highway. This book is written for the visitor who has an
interest in geology, but who may not have had formal training
in the subject. It may also help assure that the visiting
geologist does not overlook some of the features described.