Graham County, Arizona is one of the best places to star gaze and study Astronomy. The Vatican even donated a telescope to the Mount Graham International Observatory. Mt. Graham is one of the highest mountains in Arizona located in a very rural area in southern Arizona. It was in the mid-1980s that the idea came about to put an observatory on the top of the mountain.
This idea quickly turned into an expanded version of an observatory called Discovery Park, an education and entertainment retreat, emphasizing the science and culture of the Gila Valley, from mining and agriculture to space exploration.