Hiking Monolith Gardens

On our last day in Kingman we found a hiking trail in the nearby Cerbat mountain range.  We went about 3 miles out and back and enjoyed the scenery.

I imagine that outcropping in the center of this photo is the monolith giving the name to the Monolith Gardens trail.

We saw a number of flowering plants along the way, many the same we had seen a month or so earlier in Gold Canyon.  Kingman is about 1,000 feet higher than our resort.

These are poppies.

Flowering prickly pear cactus and some plant with small white flowers.

Another cactus surrounded by white flowers.

More prickly pear.

Yellow sunflower-like blossoms.

We had never seen a plant that looks like this.  Anyone know what it is?

Trains in Kingman

On one corner in Kingman we saw this really neat, old police car.

This is the engineer and fireman's view of the inside of the steam engine we saw there.

At the train museum in town, they had a really neat train layout.  We enjoyed watching the trains running on the tracks.

                                             

Moving on to Kingman

From Williams we moved on to another Route 66 town, Kingman.  This sign over the main street reminds of one in downtown Golden, Colorado.

Because Route 66/I-40 follows the same path as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, we saw another neat steam engine in Kingman.

The old downtown has a lot of neat old neon signs.

And many murals.

This one is on a water tank next to the train tracks.

We enjoyed two days of walking around downtown Kingman.