We've left Phoenix and are now staying in Camp Verde, which is a small town about 25 miles south of Sedona on I17. We'll be here a few days and then we'll move to Sedona for the 4th of July weekend.
Jerome is a small town west of Camp Verde that was created in the late 1880s when copper was discovered. At one time the population of the town reached 15,000 but it became a virtual ghost town when the copper mine closed in 1953. Today the town is a tourist attraction because of the many quait shops that line Main Street and the fact that the town is on the side of a mountain at almost a mile high elevation. The drive to get there is very nice also.
