Pajarito Mountains
The Pajarito Mountains is a small mountain range of western Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States, which extends south into Sonora, Mexico. The range is adjacent to the Atascosa Mountains at its north, with both ranges in the center of a north-south sequence of ranges called the Tumacacori Highlands. The Highlands have the Tumacacori Mountains at the north, and south of the U.S.-Mexico border, the Sierra La Esmeralda range (the Emerald Mountains). The Tumacacori Highlands are part of a regional conservancy study of "travel corridors" for cats, called Cuatro Gatos, Four Cats, for mountain lions, ocelots, bobcats, and jaguars.
Recreation Sites
Border #45
Most of those who come to visit in this area are drawn here by the unique environment of Sycamore Canyon. Home of one of the few perennial streams in extreme southern Arizona, it supports such a…
Pajarita Wilderness
Pajarita is a Spanish word meaning little bird. It is an appropriate name for this 7,420-acre area, for a couple of reasons. For one, the international border with Mexico forms the area’s southern…