{"id":4877,"date":"2016-07-02T07:06:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T14:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2016-07-02T07:06:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T14:06:34","slug":"usury-mountains-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=4877","title":{"rendered":"Usury Mountains Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

We wanted to show my parents the desert and my dad wanted to see the Superstition Mountains, so we decided to pick a patch of desert that was on the way there. We went to the edge of Mesa heading toward the Superstitions.\u00a0\"2016-06-04<\/a>It was coincidentally the hottest day of the year so far, which of course, being Arizona in June, was pretty hot with a high of 116. The a\/c in the Dodge was as excellent as ever and we brought a very large amount of water, so it was fine. Usury Mountains Park turned out to be a great place to see the desert. It was right where\u00a0the mountains and the city meet and had nice paths and a lovely, air conditioned welcome center.
\n\"2016-06-04<\/a>We learned from the man in the shop that Mesa and up into the mountains is a wetter part of the Sonoran desert, whereas Phoenix proper is drier, so Papago Park, another go to location for showing people the desert, is a drier representation.<\/p>\n

Here is a video of the park:<\/p>\n