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Tucson Audubon Society
Field Trip Pre-Meeting Carpool Sites

Tucson Audubon field trips attract participants from throughout southeast Arizona, including many who live far from the traditional Tucson-area meeting locations. In the interest of more efficient carpooling, we have created a list of "pre-meeting sites" where participants can gather before joining the trip leader at the meeting location published in the Vermilion Flycatcher. Participants who live in Green Valley or SaddleBrooke, for example, can drive to these pre-meeting sites and then carpool with others from their local area to meet the larger group at the published meeting location. Field trip leaders will not be arranging this pre-meeting carpooling, meeting participants at these pre-meeting sites, or stopping at them on the way to the birding destination; they are purely for the convenience of participants who hope to carpool from a location closer to home if anyone else from their neighborhood shows up to carpool. Please make certain to arrive at the published meeting site before the published departure time, as the leaders will leave at the stated departure time.

Pre-meeting Sites

Northwest Tucson: Ina and Via Ponte—commuter parking lot one block west of Oracle and Ina, on the south side of Ina.

To Green Valley: I-19/Continental Rd. McDonald’s parking lot, 50 min, 45 miles.
To southeast Tucson: Houghton/1-10 exit 275—dirt lot on Houghton Rd. north of I-10, 45min, 27 miles.
To central Tucson: First Baptist Church parking lot on the west side of 5th Ave, 1½ blocks south of University Blvd., 25 min, 10 miles.
To southwest Tucson: I-19 and Irvington—Fry’s parking lot, 30 min, 14 miles.
To Mission Rd. and Ajo Way: the library parking lot on the northwest corner, 25 min, 14 miles.
To northeast Tucson: Tanque Verde Rd./Catalina Hwy.—McDonald’s parking lot, 40 min, 16 miles.

Central Tucson: The First Baptist Church parking lot on the west side of 5th Ave, 1½ blocks south of University Blvd. This site may not be used on weekends.

Southwest Tucson: I-19 and Irvington—Fry’s parking lot.

To Green Valley: I-19/Continental Rd. exit 63—McDonald’s parking lot, 30 min, 22 miles.
To northwest Tucson: Ina/Via Ponte—commuter parking lot one block west of Oracle and Ina, on the south side of Ina, 30 min, 14 miles.
To northeast Tucson: Tanque Verde Rd./Catalina Hwy—McDonald’s parking lot, 35 min, 20 miles.

Green Valley: I-19 and Continental Rd. exit 63—McDonald’s parking lot.

To northwest Tucson: Ina/Via Ponte—commuter parking lot one block west of Oracle and Ina, on the south side of Ina, 50 min, 45 miles.
To central Tucson: First Baptist Church parking lot on the west side of 5th Ave, 1½ blocks south of University Blvd., 45 min, 35 miles.
To Mission Rd./Ajo Way: NW corner, library parking lot, 30min, 24 miles.
To Benson: I-10/St. Hwy 90—McDonald’s parking lot, 1 hour 15 min, 70 miles.
To Sierra Vista: Gateway Park—on N. Garden St. near the main gate to Ft. Huachuca, 1 hour 45 min, 85 miles.

Northeast Tucson: Tanque Verde Rd./Catalina Hwy—McDonald’s parking lot.

To northwest Tucson: Ina/Via Ponte—commuter parking lot one block west of Oracle and Ina, on the south side of Ina, 40 min, 16 miles.
To southwest Tucson: I-19/Irvington—Fry’s parking lot, 35 min, 20 miles.
To Mission Rd./Ajo Way: NW corner, library parking lot, 35 min, 18 miles.

Examples

You live in Rancho Vistoso, northwest of Tucson, and would like to participate in a trip to Agua Caliente scheduled to leave at 7:30 a.m. from the First Baptist Church in central Tucson. You arrive at the northwest Tucson pre-meeting site no later than 7 a.m. and carpool from there to the First Baptist Church, where you meet the larger group for the drive to Agua Caliente.

You live in Green Valley and want to go on the same trip. You arrive at the Green Valley pre-meeting site no later than 6:45 a.m. and carpool from there to the First Baptist Church, where you meet the larger group for the drive to Agua Caliente.

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This page was updated on 02/21/06