We drove I-10 today from New Mexico to Arizona to Picacho Peak State Park. In fact we drove past it about 10 miles to a travel plaza where we could fill our fresh water tank because the park doesn’t have enough water for campers to fill.
This park was on our original itinerary and I was excited to find we’d be camping among saguaro cacti. I’ve never been around them before.
Their botanical name is Carnigiea gigantea, and you can certainly understand where the gigantea comes from.
These boys are big.
I find them captivating…
even in death.
There are cholla…
and barrel cacti here,
but I really love the saguaro.
They grow all the way on top of the peak.
We even have a young one right on our site.
We have four days to spend here where the spacing is more to our liking.
Even though we are still close to I-10, and you can hear traffic and trains,
the view from our site makes up for it.
At the end of the day I’m glad to be back on track.
On the Roam Again 
Very interesting!! I never saw a dead saguaro before – pretty neat! I like the barrel cactus, too! That last picture is so pretty! You can even see the thorns on the cactus.
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