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| Jerome |
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| Rick outside Jerome's museum |
We visited Jerome on our trip in 2010 and decided that a return visit was in order. Jerome was a major mining center for copper in the late 1800's and the fourth largest city in Arizona with a population of 15,000. It was a wild mining town and considered to be the wickedest city in the west due to the wild saloons and bordellos. The mines shut down in 1953 and the population quickly dropped to 50. In the late 1960's artists moved in for the low rents and the town is now a major tourist attraction, still with a permanent population of only 100. A fun place built on the side of a mountain where some stores have 3 stories, all with a street entrance.
In order to get to Jerome we caught the Oak Creek Canyon road outside of Flagstaff, which took us the 30 miles to Sedona and then another 30 miles to Jerome. Oak Creek Canyon is one of the prettiest drives I have been on and of course driving into and out of Sedona is the best with all of the red rock formations.
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| Outside of Sedona |
Tomorrow we leave for Gallup (a change of plans as we originally were going to Chinle) and then to Canyon DeChelly.
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