Charles Metcalfe Park

Charles Metcalfe gave Kingman this park. A civic leader and land developer who lived from 1855 to 1943, he deeded the ground in perpetuity for the town's young people, and he pushed for the creation of Hualapai Mountain Park in the pines above town, still Mohave County's favorite escape from the desert heat. Metcalfe wore most of the county's hats in his time: probate judge, superintendent of schools, Kingman postmaster, lodge officer. The monument here went up in 1982, on the hundredth anniversary of the railroad town he spent his life building.

What the plaque says

Dedicated in Memory of Charles Metcalfe 1855-1943. He deeded in perpetuity this land as a park for the use of Kingman youth. Recognized as a civic leader and land developer, He proposed development of Hualapai Mountain Park. He held offices of Mohave County Probate Judge, Supt. of Schools, Kingman U. S. Postmaster, Officer and Member Kingman B.P.O. Elks and Masonic Lodge. This monument built centennial year 1882 – 1982.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kingman — 0.4 mi
  The working hub of Route 66 in Arizona — a railroad town named for a surveyor, Andy Devine's hometown, and the last real stop before the road's two wildest endings.
• Oatman — 21 mi
  A gold camp in the Black Mountains that outlived its mines, now run by wild burros — reached by the wildest switchbacks left on Route 66, and named for a history worth telling straight.
• Hackberry General Store — 23 mi
  Looks like a junkyard, is a shrine — the 1934 store an artist brought back from the dead, and the Route 66 stop that inspired Fillmore in Cars.

More markers nearby

• Wagon Route — steps away
• Wish You Were Here — steps away
• Santa Fe Locomotive No. 3759 — steps away
• Locomotive Park — steps away