Two Guns, Arizona
N 35° 06.873 W 111° 05.913
12S E 491019 N 3885750
Two Guns is abandoned. The remains of buildings that served the tourist trade still stand in the constant wind.
Waymark Code: WM186G4
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 06/08/2023
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The history of human occupation of Two Guns goes back as far as 1050 A.D. The town sits along Canyon Diablo and a cave in the canyon wall. Legend has it the Billy the Kid hid out here and that Apaches and the Navajo fought in the cave. Two guns, as a town didn't develop until the Old Trails highway came through. A bridge over the canyon was constructed in 1914-15. The highway was labeled U.S. Route 66 in the 1920's and the increase in traffic provided the impetus to develop tourist accommodations and attractions. The area had a service station, trading post, zoo, cabins and campgrounds. Then Interstate 40 bypassed the area and that doomed the town. All that remains is some dry-stone walls and the wind and the bridge.
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