00:00Arizona's Chiricahua is now the 64th national park in the United States.
00:04That gives travelers a brand new park to add to their national park list.
00:09The former national monument officially became a national park on October 20th.
00:14It sits in southeastern Arizona near Wilcox in the Chiricahua Mountains.
00:19The park is famous for towering rock spires and balanced rocks.
00:22Volcanic activity created those formations about 27 million years ago.
00:27Desert, grassland, and forest meet here, forming what the Park Service calls a Sky Island.
00:33The area was first protected as a national monument in 1924.
00:37It became known as the Wonderland of Rocks.
00:40Chiricahua joins the Grand Canyon, Saguaro, and Petrified Forest as Arizona's fourth national park.
00:46Before this, the newest national park was West Virginia's New River Gorge in 2020.
00:53Arizona's Wonderland of Rocks is now officially the 64th U.S. national park.
00:58Disclosure.
00:59This video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced using AI-assisted tools.
