America's Great Outdoors
Time seems to stand still at Saguaro National Park in Arizona. Clear, dark nights allow vivid starlight to shine down on the rugged landscape. Reaching slowly towards the sky, the saguaro cactus usually doesn’t develop branches until it’s 50 years...

Time seems to stand still at Saguaro National Park in Arizona. Clear, dark nights allow vivid starlight to shine down on the rugged landscape. Reaching slowly towards the sky, the saguaro cactus usually doesn’t develop branches until it’s 50 years old and isn’t considered an adult until it’s 125. Some may live to be 200 years old and reach a height of 50 feet. A return to the park decades after a visit will find things mostly unchanged. The desert isn’t trying to impress you. It just does. Photo by John Vermette (www.sharetheexperience.org).

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