Coronado National Forest
 

Welcome to the Coronado National Forest

View of snow topped Santa Catalina Mountain Range

The Coronado National Forest covers 1,780,000 acres of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Elevations range from 3000 feet to 10,720 feet in twelve widely scattered mountain ranges or "sky islands" that rise dramatically from the desert floor, supporting plant communities as biologically diverse as those encountered on a trip from Mexico to Canada.

Views are spectacular from these mountains, and visitors may experience all four seasons during a single day's journey, wandering through the desert among giant saguaro cactus and colorful wildflowers in the morning, enjoying lunch beside a mountain stream, and playing in the snow later in the afternoon.

The sky islands of the Coronado National Forest are unique and surprising, offering year-round recreation opportunities.

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Rosemont Copper Project DEIS Main

Rosemont Copper Project DEIS Information


BAER Teams are on the Coronado

BAER Team?      Burned Area Emergency Response Team

What's a BAER Team and what are they doing?

The following two links explain their important functions.

   BAER Essentials  and  Three Phases of Forest Rehabilitation

Spotlights

Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell Speaks on Planning Rule

The Forest Service has released a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for land management p...

Historical Photos on the Coronado

Lower Sabino Canyon Recreation, 1937

 

View a sample of photographs from the early days of the Coronado.  Photos show early rangers, ranger stations, and Forest activities from by-gone days.

 




National Forest Watershed Conditions

The Watershed Condition Framework establishes a new consistent, comparable, and credible process for improving the health of watersheds on national forests and grasslands.