Friday, January 28, 2011

Flagstaff, AZ



We went to the Grand Canyon!! It was very cool. We learned about erosion, sedimentary rocks and the Colorado River. This is an amazing place!

We saw the evidence of erosion all over the place. We saw how erosion works in an erosion pool. It was neat!

Flagstaff (Navajo: Kinłání) is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. As of July 2006, the city's estimated population was 58,213, with a Metropolitan Statistical Area population of 124,953. It is the county seat of Coconino County. In 2005, Men's Journal named Flagstaff as No. 2 on its Best Places to Live list, and National Geographic cited the city in its list of "10 Great Towns That Will Make You Feel Young." The city is named after a Ponderosa Pine flagpole made by a scouting party from Boston (known as the "Flagstaff Tea Party") to celebrate the United States Centennial on July 4, 1876.