Arizona gets 64th National Park: 'Land of the Standing-Up Rocks'

The United States has officially designated Chiricahua in Arizona as a national park, the 64th in the country. The area, formerly a national monument since 1924, is known as the 'Land of the Standing-Up Rocks' because of the impressive rhyolite rock peaks that formed some 27 million years ago from a volcanic eruption. Chiricahua lies 90 miles east of Tucson,...