What is in your mind if I mention "Arizona"?

Answer 1

~~~ Arizona,,,come see the spacious Grand Canyon,,,,enjoy a relaxing afternoon on the courthouse lawn of Prescott ,,,and at night take a stroll on Wiskey Row,,,,how about an afternoon drive up to Oatman,,,feed the donkeys that roam the sidewalks,,,How about an evening out on the town in beautiful down town Phoenix,,,,watch a ball game or enjoy one of our unique resturants for some fine dinning,,,,,
Take a three day weekend and enjoy the cool waters of Lake Havasu,,,,Home of the London Bridge,,,,,Or the crisp clean air of the red rocks of Sedona~~~
That is what I think of when I think of Arizona,,,,,ooopppssss,,,, umm ohhhhhh you mean ARIZONA where it gets up to 120 degrees or more in the summer months!!!! If you go into Phoenix you might get stuck in one of there Monsooooooon storms that flood the streets and people try to cross the washes with their cars ,,,get stuck and wait for firemen to come rescue them,,,,,or are you talking about the ARIZONA on the river where boats fill the river and lake untill you cant see the water,,,,and it is sooooooooooooooo hot that you can literely fry an egg on the side walk (may take about 10 min ) Or on the lakes during a three day weekend where everyone is uhhh just about naked!!!
How about the T-shirt that we all have that says I survived the summer when it was 128 degrees !!!!
Gota love the desert! ~~~~~~

Answer 2

Starizona ! and 365 nights of exploring space !

A few fellow astrononomers and myself went to Arizona last year at an astronomers conference .
It was located at Starizona Observatory. Everynight it's warm clear nights .

Best 14 nights of heat & mosquito free stargazing nights I ever had .
A sky watchers dream place, You get un abstructed views of the night sky in all directions of the night sky. No buildings in the desert!

Arizona is Astronomy country !

Answer 3

That stupid song. "Arizona, take off your rainbow shades." Gag me.

OK. The gem fair in Tucson. The Grand Canyon. Hoover Dam. Kaibab forest. A great Chinese restaurant that served chicken with jalapeno peppers. A really cool cave I went to near Tucson.

Answer 4

Baseball Spring Training

Answer 5

Arizona is a state in the southwestern United States. It is a land of seemingly limitless space and tremendous vistas. Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union. From its admission on February 14, 1912, until the admission of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959, it was the youngest state.

Arizona’s landscape is one of great diversity. Sun-swept mountains and valleys, lofty plateaus, narrow canyons, and awesome stretches of desert make it one of the most beautiful states in the nation. This scenic beauty, coupled with an ideal climate, has made Arizona very popular with tourists.

Imperial Spain and, later, independent Mexico once controlled this land, and there the Native American, Spanish, and Anglo-American cultures met and fused. Although most of the Native Americans now live on reservations and Mexico and Spain long ago relinquished control of the area, traces of Arizona’s past still remain. The Native American culture has been preserved on the reservations, and Mexican and Spanish influences may be seen in architectural styles and place-names.

Arizona has undergone great changes since the 19th century, when it was a rough-and-tumble mining and cattle territory. Although it still retains much of the character of the old West for tourists, it is a modern urban and industrial state, with large cities, highly mechanized farms, and rapidly expanding industries. Phoenix is the center of Arizona’s largest urban area and the state’s capital.

The name of the state is derived from the Native American word arizonac believed to mean “place of the small spring.” Arizona is popularly known as the Grand Canyon State, after its most remarkable physical feature, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.

Arizona ranks sixth among the states in size. With an area of 295,253 sq km (113,998 sq mi), including 943 sq km (364 sq mi) of inland water, it is almost as large as all of the New England states and New York combined. Arizona’s mean elevation is about 1,250 m (4,100 ft). Roughly rectangular in shape, the state’s extreme dimensions are 631 km (392 mi) from north to south and 549 km (341 mi) from east to west. Most of the western border is formed by the Colorado River. The northeastern corner is the only place where four states meet: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.

Arizona is extraordinarily rich in unusual natural features, and many of them have been set aside in parks and monuments. The movement to protect the Grand Canyon, part of which was made a national park in 1919, began as early as 1887. Commercial timberlands are kept under close federal supervision in the national forests, which also provide refuge for large wild animals. Many Native American relics are protected in national monuments and Native American reservations.

A continuing concern in Arizona is the conservation of water. The construction of great dams and reservoirs on all the large rivers has made floods a rarity and has made available enormous quantities of water for agricultural, industrial, and municipal use. Since the 1960s air pollution has become a significant problem in Arizona as population and cities grow. In Phoenix, especially, the large number of automobiles, combined with industries such as copper smelting, has created significant pollution, which the state is now attempting to control. More stringent rules about emissions have been enacted, with positive results: The Phoenix metropolitan region in the early 1990s averaged only two days a year in which it exceeded federal standards for ozone in the air. This is a significant improvement over the mid-1980s when the city averaged 24 days a year in which federal standards for carbon monoxide were exceeded.

In 2004 the state had 9 hazardous waste sites on a national priority list for cleanup due to their severity or proximity to people.

Answer 6

Phoenix

Answer 7

HOT, unrelenting heat; urban/suburban sprawl like Phoenix and Tucson, and the Grand Canyon

Answer 8

Home sweet home...
The last continuous state to be admitted into the Union.
Stomping grounds of Geronimo.
Land of the YANKEE Spanking 2001 World Series Diamondbacks!!!!!

Thanks for asking

Answer 9

Summer = Hell.

And all those other states are complaining about 90'F weather. Those little punks. -_-

Though some of the native Arizonians go off complaining about 70'F "winters". -_- For shame. Gotta love those monsoons though. Whoo!!

Answer 10

Battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor