Tucson Arizona Agua Caliente Park

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Agua Caliente Regional Park, Fine Wall Art – Tucson, Arizona

A hidden desert oasis captured in gallery-quality fine art prints by Murray Bolesta—my photographs reveal the lush, surprising beauty of Agua Caliente Regional Park!

A Name With a Curious History

Agua Caliente—Spanish for "hot water"—takes its name from a warm spring that once drew the Hohokam and later Spanish explorers to this desert refuge. By the late 1800s, the site had become a ranch and resort, its spring-fed pond attracting Tucson's elite.

Yet today the spring runs cool, not warm—guides at the park tell that once, a common frontier technique of dynamiting the spring was used to increase flows, but the explosion had the effect of connecting the spring to shallower, cooler groundwater sources rather than the deeper geothermal reservoir, permanently stripping the spring of its warmth! 

Pima County acquired the property in 1984, rescuing it from development and transforming it into a beloved 101-acre regional park. The cold spring still flows—a small miracle in the Sonoran Desert—sustaining towering palms, cottonwoods, wildlife... and visitors.

My art is available as museum-quality unframed prints or ready-to-hang canvas wraps!