0.8 miles away
Northern Arizona University Art Museum
Has rotating exhibits featuring local and international artists.
Lowell Observatory
The observatory where Pluto was discovered in 1930 and where the first evidence of an expanding universe was recorded. Open to the public for daytime tours and night viewing.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Observatory
- Destination
- Flagstaff
- County
- Coconino County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Historic Landmark · National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 61.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 53.7
- Significance score
- 67.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- lowell.edu(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 35.2028, -111.6644
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Lowell Observatory is a observatory near Flagstaff, in Coconino County. It is one of the observatories in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 61.0 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://lowell.edu/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
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Pioneer Museum
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Coconino Center for the Arts
The largest gallery in northern Arizona, showcases local and regional art.
1.7 miles away
Walkup Skydome
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Museum of Northern Arizona
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