With one of the world’s largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, native grassland, and displays of over 200-million-year-old fossils, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.

Two Guns, Arizona

03/02/201104/16/2013 / Lizzie Morrison / 1 Comment

So traveling 11 miles further down I-40 you come across Two Guns, Arizona. Two Guns is a ghost town that used to be a tourist stop along route 66 back in the day. It was housed with a gas station, a cafe, souvenir shop, and overnight accommodations. There’s also a sign and fence up from an old Mountain Lion Zoo that included panthers and bobcats as well. I’m definitely going to have to day trip this one again as well and get some night shots. Painting with light is my favorite thing to do and it’s been ages since I last played.

I’m not sure what this used to be, there’s a lot of broken glass and nails on the ground. The pillars held up some sort of sign i suppose, just can’t find any old shots of it intact yet.

Lovely glass and nails.

Route 66 building

The only inhabitants of this here town

Cropped from picture above..I mean seriously.. the D7000 is the bomb.

Well, there’s one gun..

A bikini clad storm-trooper in an abandoned graffiti-ed pool. indeed

One of those overly processed HDR images… 😀

I always take welcome sign photographs when I’m leaving, it’s like eating dessert first.

Twin Arrows, Arizona

03/02/201104/16/2013 / Lizzie Morrison / Leave a comment

Well starting off Road-trip 2011 I drove right on past Twin Arrows, which is an abandoned place I’ve wanted to photograph while in Arizona. turns out it is 108 miles from where i live.

So obviously i turned around here to go back as i was super stoked.

So this is the view of the San Fran Peaks located in Flagstaff, Arizona

Yep, so not as exciting as you thought eh? Well i was reallllllly disappointed with the concrete barrier around the entire property and its absolute ability to not having any parking whatsoever. I actually had to stop on the exit lane itself and snap a few shots and then get going again. I will spend more time later looking for ways around these bogus road blocks.