Beginners and experts can also enjoy more than 165 miles of trails at Saguaro National Park.

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Newcomers need to learn to love the saguaro cactus, he says, rather than planting eucalyptus, olive and mulberry trees.

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America's fastest road: northbound Arizona Route 79 between Saguaro National Park and Phoenix.

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Mr. Loughner spent his adolescence just north of Tucson, in a community where a flat carpet of strip malls and low subdivisions dissolves at its fringes into dirt roads and rolling, saguaro-spiked desert.

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