The natural landscape helps to define The Boulders—and gives it its name.
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he man credited with designing The Boulders, a 1,300-acre resort in the foothills of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, is Bob Bacon, a renowned architect dubbed by Phoenix magazine as a “master of the Southwest.” But sometimes, there is no better architect than Mother Nature herself. While Bacon did a bang-up job with the resort, he didn’t erect the granite and metamorphic rock formations that give The Boulders its name: This was accomplished some 12 million years ago, when the boulders settled. These rocks give every element of the property a stirring natural beauty, whether they’re invading the two championship golf courses, overlooking the eight tennis courts or acting as a mammoth beacon home after a visit to nearby Scottsdale.
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