Published on March 15, 2018
On Friday, March 23 at 10 a.m., the Town of Oro Valley, in partnership with Pima County and the Tohono O'odham Nation, will cut the ribbon on the Honey Bee Village Archaeological Preserve, entry park and information kiosk. The 13-acre preserve includes an ADA-accessible trail loop, a new entrance and interpretive signage. It is open to the general public. The preserve is located in Oro Valley on Moore Road, just east of Rancho Vistoso Blvd.
About the Preserve
Pima County acquired the core of the prehistoric Honey Bee Village site through Pima County Historic Preservation Bonds and a donation from Oro Valley Councilmember and developer Steve Solomon. The Tohono O'odham Nation considers this site to be an important ancestral village, and later awarded a grant to Oro Valley to build a wall around the 13-acre preserve. Over the past year, Pima County has worked to build an accessible trail loop, and more recently, the Vistoso Town Center HOA donated approximately one acre of adjacent land as public entrance to the Preserve, and Mattamy Homes funded and constructed the improvements to the entry portion of the land, which now includes a picnic area, landscaping, parking and interpretive signage.