1. The Five C’s of Arizona’s economy are: Cattle, Copper, Citrus, Cotton, and Climate.

2. Yuma, Arizona is the country’s highest producer of winter vegetables, especially lettuce.

3. Arizona grows enough cotton each year to make more than one pair of jeans for every person in the United States.

4. If you cut down a protected species of cactus in Arizona, you could spend more than a year in prison.

5. Roadrunners are not just in cartoons! In Arizona, you’ll see them running up to 17-mph away from their enemies.

6. Arizona has 3,928 mountain peaks and summits, more mountains than any one of the other Mountain States (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming).

7. All New England, plus the state of Pennsylvania would fit inside Arizona.

8. Arizona’s disparate climate can yield both the highest temperature across the nation and the lowest temperature across the nation in the same day.

9. There are more wilderness areas in Arizona than in the entire Midwest. Arizona alone has 90 wilderness areas, while the Midwest has 50.

10. Arizona has 26 peaks that are more than 10,000 feet in elevation.

11. Out of all the states in the U.S., Arizona has the largest percentage of its land designated as Indian lands.

12. More copper is mined in Arizona than all the other states combined, and the Morenci Mine is the largest copper producer in all of North America.

13. The world’s largest solar telescope is located at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Sells, Arizona..

14. When England’s famous London Bridge was replaced in the 1960s, the original was purchased, dismantled, shipped stone by stone and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it still stands today.

15. The only place in the country where mail is delivered by mule is the village of Supai, located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

16. Located on Arizona’s western border, Parker Dam is the deepest dam in the world at 320 feet.

17. South Mountain Park/Preserve in Phoenix is the largest municipal park in the country.

18. Petrified wood is the official state fossil. The Petrified Forest in northeastern Arizona contains America’s largest deposits of petrified wood.

19. Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply military post Camp McDowell.

20. The Saguaro cactus is the largest cactus found in the U.S. It can grow as high as a five-story building and is native to the Sonoran Desert, which stretches across southern Arizona.

21. The best-preserved meteor crater in the world is located near Winslow, Arizona.

22. The average state elevation is 4,000 feet.

23. You could pile four 1,300-foot skyscrapers on top of each other and they still would not reach the rim of the Grand Canyon.

24. The hottest temperature recorded in Arizona was 128 degrees at Lake Havasu City on June 29, 1994

25. The coldest temperature recorded in Arizona was 40 degrees below zero at Hawley Lake on January 7, 1971.

26. A saguaro cactus can store up to nine tons of water.

27. There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in Arizona, and one-fourth of the state forested.

28. On June 6, 1936, the first barrel of tequila produced in the United States rolled off the production line in Nogales, Arizona.

29. The two largest man-made lakes in the U.S. are Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both located in Arizona.

30. Prescott, Arizona is home to the world’s oldest rodeo, and Payson, Arizona is home to the world’s oldest continuous rodeo, both of which date back to the 1880’s.