adventures in arizona: ft. lowell museum & park

after asking many friends to share some of their favorite arizona spots, we asked a few to join us in our adventures. not only did we get free tour guides, we also got to spend some time with fun people.

we visited ft. lowell museum & park with our friends, the allertons. i had taken beniah to this park many times, but had never known the significance. we actually visited on the first saturday of the month which included free admission to the museum as well as a reenactment of sorts. they had erected a tepee out front and a military band played for a small crowd. i enjoyed seeing the women dressed up in their late 1800 fashions. beniah loved chasing the allerton's son, ethan around and around the tepee.

ft. lowell was used as a protective outpost just outside of tucson to help fight the apache wars. it housed officers and their families and enlisted men. james read that the fort was placed far away from tucson because the soliders were creating too much trouble downtown. a well known officer to serve at ft. lowell was walter reed. read more notes from wikipedia.


since beniah wasn't into reading all the notes in the museum i didn't catch all the history, but we spent the rest of the afternoon walking around the park and finding the hidden creek. i think beniah preferred this part of the adventure.

reach!