Quote Originally Posted by Caradoc
Arizona has one of the widest varieties of terrain of any state in the Union, from snow country and pine trees to high desert to low desert to a patch at the southern end of the Colorado River that resembles rain forest.
Not to mention; The Grand Canyon, Volcanoes, Sky Resorts, LARGE hydroelectric Dams, etc.

I did most of my growing up there too. I can remember days when the state actually had the highest and lowest recorded temperatures of the contiguous 48 states.