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• 3 hours ago Credit Jimmy Wayne | Creative Commons The Coconino County Board of Supervisors has rejected a bid to construct a large-scale resort east of Flagstaff and south of the Navajo Nation near Two Guns.  Developer John Gunderman had proposed a luxury camping site with more than 770 lodging units. The Two Guns Resort was also slated to include water parks, a pet resort, and drive-in theater, among other amenities. The project, Gunderman estimated, would have required at least 1...

Bid to build luxury camping site east of Flagstaff rejected May 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Coconino County Board of Supervisors has rejected a bid to construct a a luxury camping site with more than 770 lodging units east of Flagstaff. The proposed Two Guns Resort was also slated to include water parks, a pet resort and drive-in theater among other amenities. KNAU reports that at a public hearing Wednesday, supervisors questioned developer John Gunderman about a...

• 18 hours ago Credit Jimmy Wayne | Creative Commons The Coconino County Board of Supervisors has rejected a bid to construct a large-scale resort east of Flagstaff and south of the Navajo Nation near Two Guns.  Developer John Gunderman had proposed a luxury camping site with more than 770 lodging units. The Two Guns Resort was also slated to include water parks, a pet resort, and drive-in theater, among other amenities. The project, Gunderman estimated, would have required at least ...

A campground resort project proposed for a site near the Navajo Nation is stalled due to objections based on cultural insensitivity. The Coconino County Board of Supervisors chose to delay the vote of approval on Two Guns Resort last week. Coconino County Supervisor Lena Fowler, who is Navajo, called the inclusion of wagons and teepees in the resort’s design a “stereotype” and felt that the project didn’t honor Native people.  Fowler said there should be consultations with Northern Ari...

Resort project near Navajo Nation stirs culture controversy December 19, 2020 GMT FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A large campground resort project proposed for a northern Arizona high desert site near the Navajo Nation is stalled amid objections centering on cultural sensitivity in general and teepees in particular. The planned inclusion of wagons and teepees — the conical tents that were widely used by tribes on the Great Plains but typically not by Indigenous people of the Southwest — drew sc...

It all came down to the tipis for the proposed Two Guns Resort 28 miles east of Flagstaff during a meeting of the Coconino County Board of Supervisors Tuesday evening. After about three hours of discussion and presentations from county staff and the developer regarding the zone change and development plan for the project, the board delayed its approval of the glamping resort project at the Two Guns interchange on Interstate 40 for cultural reasons, instead voting to continue its discussion some...