On our way back from MN we stopped in Tucson, AZ and drove through Tucson Mountain County Park, beautiful scenery and I'm sure plenty of herps at a different time of day, but at least we got to see these threatened frogs in a pond at the nature center. It was hard to keep the kids from trying to catch them. I believe this is a reintroduced population of these frogs since they no longer exist in the wild in this area.
The Tarahumara frog, Lithobates tarahumarae, is a species of frog in the Ranidae family found in Mexico and—formerly—the United States, where it is now regionally extinct. Its natural habitats are streams and plunge pools in canyons in oak and pine-oak woodland, and foothill thorn scrub and tropical deciduous forest in the Pacific coast tropical area. Permanent water is necessary for reproduction.