2/27/2023 0 Comments Hohokam national monument![]() ![]() There’s no indication that’s not open to general traffic. It would appear as if there is a surface road running through the “national monument” as well– Goodyear Rd. Likewise I’d be glad to provide contact information for Scott if you’d prefer to send him a message offline. ![]() I am sure Scott will answer any comments you may have below if you would like further information. It would be a great, extremely rare stamp to jump-start one’s collection. As an added enticement, they will create an official park passport stamp for the convention to commemorate the event. There are currently over 2,000 of these cancellation stamps in existence. It’s the 25th anniversary of the creation of official stamps managed by the Eastern National organization. Even though my stamp collection now stands at only 2. It is free to attend! I am seriously considering attending myself if I can work it into my schedule. If you happen to be in the Washington, DC area on Saturday, August 6th between 9:30 am and 5:00 pm, and you’re curious about parkstamps, then stop by the Columbia Ballroom of the Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C Street SW, Washington, DC, for the Annual Convention. I can understand that completely with my somewhat-related desire to count counties. These are people who collect parkstamps avidly as a hobby. I asked Scott if I could talk a little about the National Park Travelers Club‘s 9th Annual Convention and he said that would be fine. Scott also provide me with lots of National Park trivia that I will use in future articles. So I gave them a brief shout-out in one of the recent Utah articles. Unfortunately, no stamp exists for Hohokam Pima.ġ2MC reader “Scott” mentioned these parkstamp passports to me. No, they would insist upon an official National Park Passport Stamp to complete the deal. People who collect parkstamps wouldn’t consider a freeway jaunt sufficient. Even so, I think that’s a bit different than experiencing a National Park Service unit. In full disclosure, I’ve visited counties for less time and counted them. I guess “visit” depends on whether one considers a 30-second drive sufficient or not. That’s because, in spite of the site’s sensitivity, Interstate 10 cuts through a corner of it. However, thousands of people travel through the National Monument every day and probably never realize it. ![]() Nobody can enter the site in a general sense. So, this is as close as you can get to Snaketown without permission: According to the National Park Service, “The Gila River Indian Community has decided not to open the extremely sensitive area to the public.” ![]() Hohokam Pima National Monument falls within the boundaries of the Gila River Indian Community. When done, they completely reburied the site to preserve it for future generations. Archaeologists excavated Snaketown in the 1930’s and again in the 1960’s. It included intensive agricultural cultivation and a large system of irrigation canals. The settlement served as a large cultural center with a couple of thousand residents. Then they abandoned it for unknown reasons (possibly drought) about 900 years ago. Researchers believe Paleo-Indians settled Snaketown sometime around 2,300 year ago. This was an ancient village of the pre-Columbian Hohokam people who once inhabited a swath of the desert southwest. The government established a national monument to protect Snaketown. The site is the Hohokam Pima National Monument on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. The National Park Service strictly prohibits tourists there. You can touch it ever so briefly but you can never truly experience it legally. Even though it’s located within a major metropolitan area with more than four million residents, you cannot go there. However, you can never visit one of the sites. But they also include the more obscure such as Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. They include the famous like Yellowstone National Park. These include all manner of parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, seashores, recreation areas, trails and various other interesting designations. National Park Service currently has 394 units, with one more arriving soon. ![]()
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