The Desert View Watchtower is a 70-foot tall stone tower located on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, designed by architect Mary Colter and completed in 1932.
Gila River Resorts & Casinos - Lone Butte is a vibrant Native American casino located in Chandler, Arizona, operated by the Gila River Indian Community.
Sunset Crater is a volcanic cinder cone located about 15 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona, and is within the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.
Cattail Cove State Park spans 2,000 acres along the eastern shore of Lake Havasu in southern Mohave County, Arizona, about 19 miles south of Lake Havasu City and 8 miles north of Parker Strip on State Route 95.
Devil’s Bridge Trail in Sedona, Arizona, is a popular and moderately easy hike of about 1.8 to 2 miles round trip, leading to the area’s largest natural sandstone arch.
Apache Gold Casino & Resort in Arizona is a lively casino and resort owned by the San Carlos Apache Tribe, located just five minutes east of Globe, Arizona, and roughly an hour and a half from Phoenix.
Wupatki National Monument in Arizona preserves ancient Native American pueblos built primarily between the 11th and 13th centuries, after the eruption of nearby Sunset Crater Volcano enriched the soil with volcanic ash, making agriculture possible in the arid landscape.
Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area near Show Low in Arizona's White Mountains offers year-round camping, fishing, picnicking, boating, and wildlife viewing around a 150-acre lake at 6,300 feet elevation amid ponderosa pines in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.
Alamo Lake State Park in west-central Arizona, about 38 miles north of Wenden, centers on a man-made reservoir created by Alamo Dam in 1968 for flood control on the Bill Williams River, formed by the Big Sandy and Santa Maria Rivers, offering remote solitude amid Sonoran Desert mountains and low vegetation.
Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park in Yuma, Arizona, preserves the notorious Hellhole of the West, a territorial prison operational from July 1, 1876, to 1909, when overcrowding prompted its closure and transfer of 3,069 inmates—including 29 women convicted of crimes from murder to polygamy—to a new facility in Florence.
Jerome State Historic Park in Jerome, Arizona, preserves the 1916 Douglas Mansion built by mining magnate James S. Douglas above his Little Daisy Mine on Cleopatra Hill, offering panoramic Verde Valley views as a museum on the town's copper boom from 1876 to 1953 when it produced billions in ore before becoming a ghost town and artists' haven.
The Painted Desert in Arizona is a vast and striking desert region stretching about 150 miles from the eastern edge of the Grand Canyon into Petrified Forest National Park.
San Rafael State Natural Area in Santa Cruz County, southern Arizona, encompasses around 22,000 acres of rolling grassland valleys, riparian zones with oak and cottonwood trees, and the headwaters of the Santa Cruz River that flows south into Mexico before looping back north to join the Gila River.
Dead Horse Ranch State Park in Cottonwood, Arizona, spans 423 acres along the Verde River—a federally designated Wild and Scenic waterway—at 3,300 feet elevation, renowned for its rare riparian ecosystem of cottonwood-willow forests hosting bald eagles, herons, neotropical birds, beavers, deer, and otters.
San Xavier del Bac Mission, founded in 1692 by Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, is the oldest European structure in Arizona and a remarkable example of Spanish Colonial architecture.
Desert Diamond Casino White Tanks, the newest addition to the Tohono O'odham Nation's gaming portfolio, opened on December 18, 2024, in Waddell, Arizona, at the southeast corner of Loop 303 and Northern Parkway amid the White Tank Mountains west of Glendale.
