In Tucson, we've arranged for comfortable on campus housing at the University of Arizona for reasonable rates. The single-occupancy rooms in the air-conditioned residence halls are equipped with twin beds, desks, dressers, closets, a small refrigerator, telephone and Ethernet. Each floor wing has common bathroom facilities. The halls provide kitchen and barbeque facilities, lounges, laundry rooms, staff services, and meeting rooms.

Off campus housing is also readily available with four bed-and-breakfasts and two major hotels (Marriott and Sheraton) located within easy walking distance of the University of Arizona. Although a more expensive option, off campus housing offers hotel-style amenities for those participants who prefer them.

The field study accommodations vary in type, but each site offers lodging appropriate for a group of our size. Keep in mind that we will be traveling and staying in rural locations. Check out the photographs of the lodging facilities on the housing links. Most of the accommodations involve shared rooms. We have negotiated reasonable lodging fees that include all meals served in a common location at the ranches and research station.

You’ll find air conditioning and/or refrigerated cooling (known here in the Southwest as swamp cooling) that will make our stays more comfortable at each of our overnight locations, with the significant exception of the Cuenca de los Ojos ranches in Sonora. Hence we will only stay two nights at this location, and have planned our schedule in consideration of the anticipated stress of the heat. (Keep the mantra, it’s a dry heat, in mind!)

• At the Armendaris Ranch we’ll use two separate bunkhouses, a 5-minute drive apart, in which the bedrooms each have two single beds. Each bunkhouse has a kitchen, dining room, common living area and laundry, along with a shared bathroom with several showers.

• At the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station, the shared accommodations consist primarily of rooms with 4 or 5 single beds, and a bathroom with shower. Some private rooms are available for a higher fee. A swimming pool, washer and dryer, telephones, and refrigerator are available for guest use.

• At the San Bernardino Ranch, the most rustic of our stops, the shared accommodations are bunkrooms, doubles, and sleeping porches with shared baths. Half the group will stay at a house on the San Bernardino Ranch and the other half in a bunkhouse across the road at the neighboring Las Anitas Ranch; both ranches are owned by the Cuenca Los Ojos Foundation. Each bunkhouse has a kitchen, common living area, and shared bathroom. The facilities are a 10-minute drive apart. We will eat our meals and hold indoor presentations at San Bernardino, where there is room to accommodate our full group.

• In Douglas and Agua Prieta we have arranged hotel lodging: the Hotel Plaza in Agua Prieta, Sonora, is a new facility with all the expected amenities, including internet access, telephones, cable television, swimming pool, and restaurant; the historic Gadsden Hotel in Douglas, Arizona, whose 160 comfortable air-conditioned rooms have private baths, cable television, and telephones, is an 80-year-old renovated hotel that retains its opulent 1920s style. Single, double, and suite rooms are available at both hotels.

Housing Links

• In Tucson: On campus housing
• In Tucson: Off campus housing
  
  
• Southwest Research Station- American Museum of Natural History
• Gadsden Hotel, Douglas
• Hotel Plaza, Agua Prieta
• Ranches

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