Paradise, Arizona
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Paradise, Arizona is a tiny (twelve year-round residents) former mining town in Cochise County, Arizona, surrounded by National Forest land. It is located 5.5 miles west (up-mountain) from Portal, Arizona - Latitude 3156N, Longitude 10913W, altitude @5460 feet. During its short but lively heyday, the town had bars, a barber shop, mercantile stores, hotels, a jail, and a red-light district. Almost everyone left when the mines failed, pulling down their homes and businesses and taking the lumber with them. One local story has it that the Walkers named Paradise while honeymooning here. A good history book on the area is "A Portal to Paradise", by Alden Hayes. There is no cell phone reception in Paradise.
There are significant temperature extremes. The Western Regional Climate Center maintains a historical weather site at: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?azpara
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