Secret Prescott Christmas Spots

Christmas in Prescott 2025

We hosted the family for Christmas this year at Juniper Ridge.  We scrambled to get enough places for 12 people to sleep but the house did great.  We didn't run out of propane nor water!

• Food, food, food!
• A couple of days on the range
• Local hikes
• Bill's Pizza

Prescott Square

Lynx Lake with very low water

Weekend Activities

• Hiked Pioneer Park for the first time
• Range day with buddy to zero some optics
• Getting house ready for Christmas
• Cookie sale at church

Along the trails in Pioneer Park

Pioneer Park trail map

Getting Ready For Christmas

We got the tree and stockings ready for Christmas!

Prescott Christmas Weekend

My parents and aunt and uncle came up to enjoy some Prescott Christmas events!

• Christmas Tenors at the Elks Theatre
• Courthouse lighting - very nice but super crowded and shuttle was quite disorganized

Local children singing hymns before the lighting

We setup chairs in the morning

Prescott Light Parade

Highland Pines float at day

Highland Pines float at night

Thanksgiving in Tucson

• Hiked Bren Mt.
• Shopping trip to Tubac
• Annivesary dinner at Moonstone
• Thanksgiving dinner with the Bakers
• UA planeterium

Old car in a ravine

Hiking towards Bren

Moonstone

Downtown Tubac

20 Year Blog Anniversary

Today is my 20 year anniversary of this blog!

I started it at the heydey of personal blogging.  Unfortunately, most blogs of that era have moved to social media such as Facebook, gone commerical or just died off.

Hopefully I will be here for 20 more!