Coronado National Forest

Coronado National Forest spans 1.7 million acres across southeastern Arizona’s sky islands—mountain ranges rising from desert like biological fortresses. This is where saguaros meet ponderosas, where jaguar tracks appear in remote canyons, and where nine distinct ecosystems stack vertically in a single forest. Named for the conquistador but shaped by millennia of Indigenous stewardship, Coronado offers world-class birding, dark skies, and solitude minutes from Tucson. Rep a forest where desert and alpine collide.