Photo gallery: Barra Nada Ranch Lodge
Marion and Glen Hotchkiss opened Barra Nada Ranch Lodge in 1942 near what is now Pima Street and Wilmot Road. Today, a church occupies the site.
Barra Nada Ranch Lodge
Barra Nada Ranch Lodge
Barra Nada Ranch Lodge
Barra Nada Ranch Lodge
Barra Nada Ranch Lodge
Her first night in Tucson, she slept on the ground. "In the morning, my hair was frozen," says Marion Hotchkiss. It had to get better. And it did. Six years after Marion, her husband, Glen, and their kids arrived in Tucson in 1942, they were opening up the Barra Nada Ranch Lodge, described as "eight miles east of the city."