Driving through Gila Bend on our way to Southern Arizona.

This is Organ Pipe National Monument, not an easy park to get to as there’s not a lot to see or do along the way. On this particular visit, the main loop trail was closed to traffic due to some fawning activity of the local pronghorn antelope population. Located on the Mexican border south of Tucson, the park’s main road is also the highway to Rocky Point, so beware of flying beer cans, ice chests in the middle of the road, and speeding 12-foot tall four-wheel-drive pickup trucks with teenagers racing south for a weekend of debauchery.

On our way back home, this was just a day trip.