Ask about year-round passes. For more information call 883-2702. The visitor's mouth is agape as she feasts her eyes on the monsoon sunset seeming to emanate from Gates Pass itself. Casting dramatic hues of pink, purple, orange and yellow that melt into the velvety blues and grays of the desert floor, the sun sinks below the Tucson Mountains. But it doesn't disappear before gilding a hillside of saguaros with radiating gold, so they appear to have been frozen in time by some character in a fairy tale.
Rain soaks our guest, but no matter.
Or suggest a picnic at the Rillito River one day. Get the picnic basket, blanket and some buckets and watch their faces as you lead them down a sandy path to an even sandier river. We guarantee they'll tell that story back home. On The Prowl . Chow Chow Chow .