The story behind the Phoenix marker is told by Cartoonist Benjamin Allen, best known as Stookie Allen.
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1 of 2010, another boy scout troop, I understand they used about 430 gallons of paint with portable sprayers to spray that, all those rocks down to make the Phoenix sign nice and bright and white," said Basler. Basler said from the tip of the arrow to the end of the word, the sign is 1,00 feet across- that’s about the size of the Eiffel Tower.įor years the sign has been maintained by other scout troops. “Now what’s really amazing about that sign not only the history, it took them five and half years of their free time to assemble the rocks there, but it’s the size of it," Basler said.Īccording to Usery Mountain Park volunteers who measured the sign, each letter is about 100 feet high and 12 feet wide. It was to help direct pilots to the Phoenix airport just over 20 miles to the west. At the time, this area was an open desert. He said the boy scout group was given a project to create a marker. “And what they did was they took rocks of the side of Usery Mountain over there and then assembled them into the word Phoenix with that arrow in front of the Phoenix pointing toward Phoenix," Basler explained. He said the park has had information on when it was first created. “A boy scout troop under the direction of an eccentric ex-WWII pilot actually built that sign," said Usery Mountain Park Ranger Brennan Basler.īasler took me in his truck up Usery Pass Road to get a close look at it. Did You Know the giant Phoenix word has decorated Usery Mountain since the 1950s? It sits on Usery Mountain in northeast Mesa. You may have driven past it -the white Phoenix sign with an arrow directing you westward. Today, it’s a decorative feature in the East Valley that can be seen by air and land from miles away. An up-close view of the Phoenix air marker on Usery Mountain.
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