Please Note: Due to the Desert Gala, there will be no Theater Animal Experience Fri 4/25 - Mon 4/28. The Ironwood Restaurant will close at noon on Sun 4/27. The Ironwood Gift Shop, Baldwin Gallery, and the Desert Garden will be closed all day Sun 4/27.

Ragged Top mountain west of Tucson on an August morning after a thunderstorm. On deeper soils such as here Arizona Upland vegetation grows too dense to easily walk through it. This biological community should probably be considered thornscrub rather than desert. The other images labeled AZURTop## are of the same location.


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