Twin Peaks Campground is one of only two places where visitors can stay overnight in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument that covers 517 square miles (1338 square kilometers) in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona, USA. The remote park is the only place in the United States where the organ pipe cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) grows wild. Most of this wilderness was closed from 2003 to 2014 because of danger to the public from drug runners and illegal immigrants crossing the border that the park shares with Mexico. The campground has 208 sites for recreational vehicles (RVs) and tents.
Twin Peaks Campground is one of only two places where visitors can stay overnight in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument that covers 517 square miles (1338 square kilometers) in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona, USA. Operated by the National Park Service (NPS), the remote park is the only place in the United States where the organ pipe cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) grows wild. Most of this wilderness was closed from 2003 to 2014 because of danger to the public from drug runners and illegal immigrants crossing the border that the park shares with Mexico. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) named the vast park an International Biosphere Reserve in 1976. Twin Peaks Campground has 208 sites for recreational vehicles (RVs) and tents, although camping facilities are limited to restrooms, running water and a few solar showers.
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Location: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ajo, Arizona, USA
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