The film is the creation of four friends -- Susan and Peter Culp, Jocelyn Gibbon and Sam Jansen -- who undertook a six-month journey in 2009 to visit all of Arizona's state parks; see what they had to offer; and learn what they and all Arizonans could do to sustain them into the future.

“Our odyssey began at a time of crisis in our state parks system,” said Susan Culp, a long-time conservation advocate and member of the Governor’s Sustainable State Parks Task Force. “A decade of starvation funding crippled the agency’s capital budget for maintenance and repairs and additional budget cuts, due to the “Great Recession” of the past two years, have nearly dealt a death blow to our state parks system.”

The four filmed and photographed each parks’ natural, historical, and cultural amenities. They interviewed leading Arizona citizens, park managers, visitors, and volunteers. They collected reports, studies, and facts about the economic and social benefits of state parks to local communities, regions, and the state as a whole.

After the showing of the film, a community dialogue led by Arizona Humanities Council Scholar, Vincent Murray, will follow.