Arizona - U.S. Highway, Route 66, San Francisco Peaks

U.S. Highway 66 crossing Arizona.  The mountains formed by this giant alligator juniper are the San Francisco Peaks as seen between Flagstaff and Williams, Arizona. They are 12,611 feet high, the highest in the southwest.

Ektachrome by Bob Fronske

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Alligator Juniper is a small to medium-sized tree reaching 10-15 m (rarely to 25 m) tall.

The bark is usually very distinctive, hard, dark gray-brown, cracked into small square plates - somewhat resembling Alligator skin.