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The mines are long gone—shut down for good in 1953. What remains is a picture-per-
fect, turn-of-the-century Victorian town located in one of the steepest places you've ever
seen.Soprecipitousarethetown'sswitchbackingstreetsthat,asaPhoenixnewspaperonce
observed, “Your neighbor in Jerome can't look into your back windows, although he can
look down your kitchen chimney from his front porch.”
Three museums invite visitors to relive the city's past: the Jerome State Historic Park's
opulentDouglasMansion,withfineviewsfromitsupstairsbalconies;theJeromeHistoric-
al Society Mine Museum, featuring displays of old mining paraphernalia and ore samples;
and the Gold King Mine Museum, sporting a replica of a mine shaft that visitors can enter.
Watson Lake, near Prescott, is one of many in the area surrounded by giant boulders. These wonderful basins offer great
opportunities for hiking, swimming, kayaking, and camping.
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Prescott
Cresting Mingus Mountain at a soaring 7,023 feet, the highway makes its final switchback
descent into Prescott Valley, a wide basin of grass and ranchland. End to end, this soothing
expansestretchesmorethan25miles,fromthebaseofMingusMountaintotheformerter-
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