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Arizona is my second-favorite state. So far, I’ve found very little not to like about the place.

When it comes to naming things, you have to hand it to those folks out there. Consider these examples…

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Names of Towns and Ghost Towns

Arsenic Tubs
Bitter Springs
Bumble Bee
Burnt Water
Carefree
Cockleburr
Cowlic
Friendly Corner
Grasshopper Junction
Happy Jack
Hard Cash
Hopeful
Jackrabbit
Kaka
Many Farms
Mexican Water
Monkey’s Eyebrow
Octave
Oracle Junction
Paradise Valley
Phantom Ranch
Pinetop
Pinon
Portal
Punkin Center
Show Low
Skull Valley
Snaketown
Strawberry
Sundad
Sunflower
Sunshine
Sunnyside
Sunnyslope
Sunrise
Sunset
Surprise
Tombstone
Tortilla Flat
Tuba City
Turkey Flat
Two Guns
Why

Other Places Named With Panache

Bloody Basin
Bright Angel Trail
Chocolate Mountains
Christmas Tree Cave
Cleopatra Hill
Coffeepot Rock
Cremation Canyon
Dead Horse Ranch
Dead Indian Canyon
Dripping Springs
Elves Chasm
Gobbler Peak
Great Thumb Mesa
Grief Hill
Growler Valley
Gunsight Butte
Hellhole Bend
Hell’s Hollow
Hermit’s Rest
Horseshoe Mesa
Horsethief Tank
Jackass Canyon
Little Bastard Rapid
Mount Baldy
Mummy Cave
Painted Desert
Peacock Mountains
Poverty Knoll
Quartermaster Viewpoint
Rancid Tuna Rapid
Redneck Rapid
Roaring Springs
Skeleton Mesa
Scorpion Ridge
Separation Canyon
Superstition Mountains
Triumphal Arch
Upset Rapid
Vasey’s Paradise
Vulcan’s Anvil
Whiskey Row
Witches’ Well

Bright Angel Trail.

Coffeepot Rock. What else would you call it?