The design for Cactus Camp figuratively took shape on a bar napkin at the Roadrunner Bar in New River, Arizona. Kit Carson (no relation to the mountain man) says he had inspiration from the work of great architects: Mary Colter, who designed all of Fred Harvey’s train stations and rock architecture on structures at the Grand Canyon, and Antonio Gaudí of Barcelona, Spain. In his imagination Carson drank beer with those “friends,” did some napkin sketches and voíla had an architectural


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