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Summerhaven Real Estate
In the 1870s, Summerhaven was used as an outpost against the Apache Indians. Later, during WWII, prisoners at one of the only fence and wall-free prison camps in the nation built the Mount Lemmon highway, the first reliable road up the mountain. In 2003, a wildfire started by a campfire known as the Aspen fire started at Mount Lemmon and burned for about a month. It destroyed 340 homes on the mountain and almost 85 thousand acres of forestland. In the summertime, Summerhaven is a great place to escape the Tucson heat. It's usually about 20 degrees cooler on the mountain than at Tucson International Airport. There is Rose Canyon Lake, where you can fish in the small, stocked lake, several miles of trails, the historic prison camp site, and many campgrounds. Some people also enjoy riding quads down the back of Mount Lemmon, which is a hairpin-turned dirt road with amazing views that leads out to the town of Oracle. In the village of Summerhaven, you can visit the Mount Lemmon Ski Valley, the Southernmost ski area in the U.S., the Cookie Cabin, a place to eat homemade cookies and pizza, or the Mount Lemmon Café, which serves legendary homemade pie. The lifts at the Ski Valley are open in the summer for sightseeing tours and rides, and the area also holds an Oktoberfest celebration each year. Homes on Mount Lemmon are traditional cabins - you won't find any of the Spanish-style architecture here that you find in Tucson. Most are cabin-style multi-level structures built up into the mountain or built out on a rock foundation or wooden posts. Landscaping is minimal because people enjoy the wild grass, pine trees and forest flora that grow naturally up here, unlike in town. Students in this area go to Tanque Verde Unified School District. Students in this neighborhood are zoned to Tucson Unified school district, and attend Cholla (pronounced "choi-ya") Magnet High School, which is conveniently located at the very beginning of Starr Pass road on the way to the highway. There are walking paths, hiking trails, golf cart paths and parks located throughout Starr Pass. It's location in the Tucson Mountains close to Saguaro National Park also means development is limited and it will never be completely surrounded.
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