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Mount Lemmon - Summerhaven Entertainment Magazine
Mt. Lemmon road construction
The highway to Mt. Lemmon will be detoured as crews replace drainage systems between milepoasts 12 and 3.8 until July.
Lane closures will be Mondays through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for the next few months.
Before you take the hour long drive outside of Tucson, call ahead to get road conditions. Check current weather reports for Mt. Lemmon.
Once you get up to the top of the Catalina Mountains, you'll want to know where to go shopping and dining and information about Ski Valley.
SkyCenter lets you touch the stars
Tours of the University of Arizona's observatory in the Santa Catalina Mountains are being conducted along with a series of talks by scientists.
In addition to nighttime viewing of the stars, the observatory is now open during the daytime for tours. Visitors can observe a variety of research being done at the observatory.
The Mount Lemmon SkyCenter was originally a military base converted to a telescope site. For more information call 626-8122.
Devastating forest fire brings new life to Summerhaven community
The village of Summerhaven, Arizona, atop the Catalina Mountains Mt. Lemmon north of Tucson, AZ, slowly recovers from the devastating Aspen Wildfire that started on Thursday, June 19, 2003.
EMOL.org publisher, Bob Zucker, stands above the town of Summerhaven where burned sticks and stumps are being cleared for a new community. More photos of the rebuilding of Summerhaven. Photo by Melinda Zucker
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Mt. Lemmon, AZ Index
What to do when you get to the top of the mountain. Stores, restaurants and sites to see.
The winter 2009-2010 snowfall season at Ski Valley. Hours, information and resources.
Updated continuous RSS weather reports on Mt. Lemmon and driving conditions from weather.com. Links to Mt. Lemmon weather web sites and phone numbers.
Video Clips
First Snowfall 2008. Video clip of the first snow on Thanksgiving.
Fire on the Mountain. Watch a video clip from TEP looking at the Catalina Mountains during the 2003 fire. Other videos of Mount Lemmon and Summerhaven.
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality Scenes Spin the images and zoom in for more detail on VR scenes of Mt. Lemmon and Summerhaven.
Mt. Lemmon Photos
Up Mt. Lemmon Drive Up Mt. Lemmon- over a dozen photos, video clip movie, views of new growth, Summerhaven progress
Summerhaven renewal. See how Summerhaven looks.
Drive up Mt. Lemmon: Photo tour up the mountain to the Mt. Lemmon Ski Valley. See Nixon Head Rock.
Take an early winter drive up the mountain. Large photos and video clips of scenery, rock formations, and the latest construction pictures of Summerhaven.
Mt. Lemmon Weather, Shopping, Dining, Entertainment & Culture
Connect Online to Mt. Lemmon Internet links. Mt. Lemmon businesses, hiking spots, ski and weather conditions, road conditions, camping.
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New life is now coming back to Frog Mountain- the name given to the Catalina Mountains by the Tohono O'odham Indians.
From the desert sand to the forest snow
Mt. Lemmon is a rare jewel in the hot Arizona desert. Jutting up 9,000 feet above sea level in the Santa Catalina Mountains 25 miles north of Tucson, Arizona, this magnificent mountain peak stands amidst the pale backdrop of the sparse desert sand and cactus.
Enjoy a tour up the mountain, watch videos of the new Summerhaven and fire that destroyed the village and scarred the mountainsides, and learn about the latest developments in the redevelopment of Summerhaven and Sabino Canyon Parkway.
When the summer heat beats down at more than 100 degree (F) in Tucson, visitors and residents enjoy about a 30 degree difference!
Some people accidently spell Mt. Lemmon as Mt. Lemon, Mount Lemmon, Mount Lemon or Mt. Lemman. If you spelled it wrong, Mt. Lemon is still in Tuscon, AZ. Either way, you have arrived at one of the top web site on Mount Lemmon and Summerhaven.
Watch Video and VR Clips of Mt. Lemmon and Summerhaven, AZ.
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Plants to sprout along Catalina Highway
With federal funding, more than 10,000 trees and plants will be planted along the highway that connects Tucson to Mount Lemmon.
The 20-year reconstruction plant is mostly completed with the replenishing of the plants and trees lost during construction and the 2003 Aspen Fire. Pine and Douglas fir will be planted at higher elevations from seeds of the trees from the mountain.
Drip irrigation will water the seedlings until they can survive on their own, especially during the warm, summer droughts that might come along.
Other trees include mountain yucca, golden flowered agave, desert spoon, Emory oak, Ponderosa pine and Arizona pine.
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Books on Mount Lemmon, Summerhaven, Frog Mountain and the Catalina Mountains
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by Mary Ellen Barnes (Author)
As you wind your way up the Catalina Highway, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a first-time visitor or a native Tucsonan; you know you’re on the way to someplace special.
The Santa Catalina Mountains first captivated Tony Zimmerman on a 1937 hunting trip. Regard for the alpine beauty must have been in his genes—he was the son of Swiss German immigrants—and by 1940 the Tucson schoolteacher had begun taking his family to Mount Lemmon to spend the summer. Back then, the road up the mountain was a rough two-track dirt road from Oracle, and Summerhaven was nothing but a sleepy cluster of summer cabins. But Tony Zimmerman was to help change all of that.
The Road to Mount Lemmon is a beguiling memoir of the Catalina Mountains told by the daughter of one of the pioneers in the life and development of Mount Lemmon’s communities. Mary Ellen Barnes tells how her father Tony resigned from teaching in 1943 to devote his career to the development of this mountain oasis. He not only sold real estate for long time landowner Randolph Jenks, he even bought the village’s tiny two-room store, installing a sawmill to build a larger store, and built the Mount Lemmon Inn. And as she spins Tony’s personal saga, she also gives readers a glimpse of the Catalinas before Tucson became a boom town, recalling idyllic adventures in wild country and the cowboys, rangers, ranchers, and loggers who worked there.
Barnes tells Tony’s story as if sharing it with family, evoking her father’s personality on every page. The Road to Mount Lemmon is an intimate view of a mountain community over the course of nearly sixty years—a view that few people have shared but one all can appreciate.
Product Details
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: University of Arizona Press (June 11, 2009)
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Tucson Hiking Guide
Author: Betty Leavengood
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Squeezing the Lemmon II ...
more juice than ever:
A rock climber's guide to the Mt. Lemmon Highway, Tucson, Arizona by Eric Fazio-Rhicard (Author) published 2000, 324 pages.
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Climbers guide to Sabino Canyon and Mount Lemmon Highway Tucson, Arizona
by John Steiger
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Frog Mountain Blues
A story of Frog Mountain (Paperback)
by Charles Bowden, Jack W. Dykinga (Photographer)
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(Paperback)