About two years ago we visited the area to see the southern parts we had missed on previous trips to Arizona. We stayed in Bisbee but drove extensively in the area south of that town from east to west. We traveled from just east of Douglas to Nogales sticking close to the border. Douglas is like going back 50 years or so.
I was looking to see what the minutemen were all about. We saw lots of evidence of illegals including one major BP bust west of Coranado National Monument and twenty or so running across the hiway and up a draw just west of Nogales.
I don’t like the area nearly as much as the north and Navajo/Hopi country. It does have stark desert beauty however.
My father-in-law has a claim on a mine in the Huachuca Mountains south of Sierra Vista. The mine is from the 1600’s. Not very extensive; it goes back about 150 feet, but interesting that people were actually mining in the area that long ago.
Well, I like Tucson because it is not a yuppified as the Phoenix area and we have dear friends in the Sabino Canyon area so we keep coming back every year, finally bought a house there and hope to sell in WA and make it permanent. Tucson is a big small town and still blue collar in a way Scottsdale could never be. I do like northern AZ but way to rural for me. I would never wander around near the Nogales border and our friends have a friend who has a ranch on the border and the illegals steal cows, and anything not nailed down, not to mention bathrooming on his property.