AZ-Pena+Blanca+Canyon


 * =Birding in Arizona=

Santa Cruz County
=Peña Blanca Canyon= Nogales, Arizona 85621 Peña Blanca Canyon webpage Peña Blanca Lake webpage White Rock Campground webpage

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Pena Blanca Canyon
Coordinates: 31.366391, -111.1080835 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Pena Blanca Lake
Coordinates: 31.401, -111.087 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

White Rock Campground
Coordinates: 31.393, -111.0893 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Peña Blanca Canyon
Peña Blanca Canyon is a small canyon in the Pajarito Mountain foothills about 10 miles north of our border with Mexico and the city of Nogales. The canyon runs north-south and is broken up by Peña Blanca Lake.

Peña Blanca Lake takes up about 50 acres of Peña Blanca Canyon and was created in 1957 by the Arizona Game and Fish Department. It's a beautiful desert oasis surrounded by grassy, oak-dotted hills and bluffs of limestone. Peña Blanca Lake is a popular recreation and fishing spot and can be crowded on the weekends in the summer.

The lake was drained in 2009 due to chemical contamination and to remove non-native plants and wildlife, It has been refilled and a new boat ramp installed. The new ramp is 48 feet long and 22 feet wide. It can be used to launch motor-powered boats, but boaters are restricted to one electric motor or one gasoline motor of 10 horsepower or less. From Peña Blanca Canyon webpage



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