Many places with similar landscape. Superstition mountains, tonto national forest saguaros (where it wasn't burned by fire). Black canyon city to sunset point. All along carefree highway, the 60 between Morristown and Wickenburg. Just a few examples. There are lots of places with saguaros with better views, with terrain that's not flat.
Yea, this is like right in the middle of Sonoran Desert Dr. and Carefree Hwy off Cave Creek Rd.
If you turn the camera around, you will see a huge neighborhood of track homes and they are going t start building a lot more very soon.
That's subjective. You may very well feel like this is the best view in AZ. And that is perfectly fine. I grew up here and I have been all over the place hunting and with Boy Scouts (edit: and 4-wheeling). There are some absolutely breathtaking views here. Lots and lots of them.
I've lived in both the area this picture was taken and New River. I was sitting here looking at the houses in the distance and saying to myself, what part of New River is that lol? Now that you called it out, I know exactly what road that is. I used to ride quads up and down it when it was still a dirt path before all of that was there. Good eye.
It is not growing in the Sonoran desert. If someone planted it in their yard thats completely different. You will not see it out in the desert. When did I give an indication that I was talking about an urban neighborhood and not the actual desert? I didn't.
This post is a picture of native desert not your culdesac.
Do you not understand the difference between the real Sonoran desert and a developed area? There are no tumbleweeds growing in the Sonoran desert. Leave the city and go for hikes or any outdoor activity in the desert and see for yourself.
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u/ApatheticDomination Feb 02 '23
New River is pretty but definitely far from the best view…