Must-SeeArizona
18 places and 49 sights on our lists.
Places in Arizona
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Must-SeeHorseshoe Bend and Lake Powell
Arizona
The Colorado River's famous 270-degree bend seen from a 1,000-foot cliff, near the red-walled boating paradise of Lake Powell.
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Must-SeeMonument Valley
Arizona and Utah
The red sandstone buttes of every Western movie, on Navajo land; see them at sunrise or with a Navajo guide.
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Worth a DetourAntelope Canyon
Arizona
A narrow slot canyon of swirling, glowing sandstone near Page, Arizona. Entry is only with a Navajo-led tour.
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Worth a DetourCanyon de Chelly
Arizona
Sheer red canyon walls sheltering ancient cliff dwellings, and Navajo families who still farm the valley floor.
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Worth a DetourHoover Dam
Arizona and Nevada
A 1930s concrete giant across the Colorado River, 45 minutes from Las Vegas.
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Worth a DetourRoute 66
Illinois to California
The old Chicago-to-Los Angeles highway; its best-kept stretch of diners and neon runs across Arizona.
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Worth a DetourSedona
Arizona
Red rock buttes, easy hikes and a reputation as a spiritual retreat, two hours from the Grand Canyon.
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If You're NearbyBisbee and Jerome
Arizona
Two old copper-mining towns turned artists' colonies, clinging to Arizona's hillsides.
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If You're NearbyChapel of the Holy Cross
Arizona
A modernist Catholic chapel built straight into Sedona's red rock in 1956, with a great cross-shaped window looking out over the buttes.
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If You're NearbyFlagstaff
Arizona
A pine-forest mountain town on Route 66, gateway to the Grand Canyon, where Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory.
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If You're NearbyMeteor Crater
Arizona
The best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth, nearly a mile wide, in the Arizona desert. Apollo astronauts trained here.
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If You're NearbyMission San Xavier del Bac
Arizona
The "White Dove of the Desert", a gleaming 18th-century Spanish mission on the Tohono Oʼodham Nation south of Tucson, still serving its community.
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If You're NearbyMontezuma Castle and Tuzigoot
Arizona
A five-story cliff dwelling, set 100 feet up a limestone wall, built by the Sinagua about 900 years ago.
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If You're NearbyPetrified Forest National Park
Arizona
Fallen 225-million-year-old trees turned to rainbow-colored stone, on a colorful badland plateau beside old Route 66.
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If You're NearbyPhoenix
Arizona
Desert resorts, the Desert Botanical Garden and a base for Sedona and the Grand Canyon.
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If You're NearbyTombstone
Arizona
'The Town Too Tough to Die': site of the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral between the Earps, Doc Holliday and the Clantons.
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If You're NearbyTucson
Arizona
A desert city between the two halves of Saguaro National Park, known for its Sonoran-Mexican food.
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