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727 attractions

61Score 54.7 out of 100
National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Sinagua cliff dwellings in the ledges of a canyon near Flagstaff, reached by a trail that drops 185 feet.
187,205 recreation visits in 2024.
62Score 54.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Montezuma Well
A limestone sinkhole near Lake Montezuma discharging 1.5 million gallons of spring water a day and holding five endemic species.
63Score 54.5 out of 100
Landmark
Mountain America Stadium
The Arizona State University football stadium in Tempe, opened in 1958 and named Sun Devil Stadium until 2023.
64Score 54.4 out of 100
Landmark
Grand Canyon Skywalk
A horseshoe-shaped glass-floored cantilever bridge at Eagle Point in Grand Canyon West, owned by the Hualapai tribe and opened in 2007.
65Score 54.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Navajo Nation Council Chamber
The seat of government of the Navajo Nation at Window Rock, a red sandstone building declared a National Historic Landmark in 2004.
66Score 54.3 out of 100
National Monument
Ironwood Forest National Monument
A 129,055-acre Bureau of Land Management monument in the Sonoran Desert, created in 2000 for its ironwood stands and Hohokam sites.
67Score 54.2 out of 100
Canyon
Oak Creek Canyon
A river gorge between Flagstaff and Sedona, followed for 13 miles by State Route 89A after a descent of hairpin turns.
68Score 54.1 out of 100
National Monument
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
A four-storey Hohokam earthen building, and the first archaeological site in the US to be federally protected.
104,429 recreation visits in 2024.
69Score 54.1 out of 100
Landmark
Standin' on the Corner Park
A park in Winslow, opened in 1999, commemorating the Eagles song "Take It Easy" with a mural, a flatbed Ford and a bronze statue.
70Score 53.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Bright Angel Trail
The most popular trail in Grand Canyon National Park, descending from Bright Angel Lodge by switchbacks to Indian Gardens.
71Score 53.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Chuska Mountains
An elongate range on the Colorado Plateau within the Navajo Nation, rising to 9,823 feet at Roof Butte in northern Arizona.
72Score 53.4 out of 100
National Monument
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
A UNESCO biosphere reserve on the Mexican border, and one of the few places organ pipe cactus grows wild in the US.
182,612 recreation visits in 2024.
73Score 53.4 out of 100
Landmark
Phoenix Raceway
A one-mile dogleg oval in Avondale, open since 1964 and seating 42,000, which has held NASCAR, IndyCar and CART races.
74Score 53.3 out of 100
National Monument
Sonoran Desert National Monument
A 496,400-acre monument south of Goodyear and east of Gila Bend, proclaimed in 2001 and managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
75Score 53.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Coyote Buttes
A permit-only section of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in Navajo Sandstone, containing the formation known as the Wave.
76Score 53.1 out of 100
Historic Site
Gila River War Relocation Center
A War Relocation Authority camp near Sacaton that held 13,348 incarcerated Japanese Americans between 1942 and 1945.
77Score 53.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Theodore Roosevelt Lake
The largest reservoir lying entirely within Arizona, formed on the Salt River by a dam Theodore Roosevelt dedicated in 1911.
78Score 53.0 out of 100
Observatory
Kitt Peak National Observatory
An observatory west of Tucson holding more than twenty optical telescopes, one of the largest such gatherings in the northern hemisphere.
79Score 53.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Phoenix Indian School
A Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school in Phoenix that ran from 1891 to 1990, the only non-reservation BIA school in Arizona.
80Score 52.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Chiricahua Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona rising to 9,759 feet at Chiricahua Peak, lying largely within the Coronado National Forest.
81Score 52.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Yuma Crossing
A crossing of the Colorado River between Arizona and California, used in the Spanish colonial period and after.
82Score 52.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Boothill Graveyard
A Tombstone graveyard of at least 250 interments, used after 1883 only for the burial of outlaws and a few others.
83Score 52.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
West and East Mitten Buttes
Two buttes in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, rising above 6,100 feet and named for their resemblance to a pair of mittens.
84Score 52.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Lees Ferry
A Colorado River crossing in Coconino County, and the gauging point dividing the river's Upper and Lower Basins since the 1920s.
85Score 52.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Papago Park
A municipal park of Phoenix and Tempe, designated a Phoenix Point of Pride and containing Hunt's Tomb.
86Score 52.3 out of 100
Historic Site
S'edav Va'aki
A pre-Columbian platform mound and canal system in Phoenix, formerly called Pueblo Grande and now S'edav Va'aki.
87Score 52.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Vishnu Temple
A summit within the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, standing at an elevation of 7,533 feet.
88Score 52.2 out of 100
Historic Site
Desert View Watchtower
A 70-foot stone tower on the Grand Canyon's South Rim, completed in 1932 to a design by Mary Colter, with murals by Fred Kabotie.
89Score 51.9 out of 100
State Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park
A living limestone cave near Benson, found in 1974 and kept from the public while conservation measures were designed.
155,562 visits in 2024.
90Score 51.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Santa Rita Mountains
A Madrean sky island range south-east of Tucson, rising to 9,453 feet at Mount Wrightson and containing Madera Canyon.
91Score 51.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Pinal City
A ghost town in Pinal County, populated from the 1870s into the 1890s, of which only a few foundations remain.
92Score 51.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Dragoon Mountains
A 25-mile range in Cochise County named after the U.S. Cavalry Dragoons who fought the Chiricahua during the Apache Wars.
93Score 51.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Fort Bowie
A US Army post established in 1862 near Apache Pass, central to operations that ended with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886.
94Score 51.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Coronado National Forest
A national forest of about 1.78 million acres spread across mountain ranges in south-eastern Arizona and south-western New Mexico.
95Score 51.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Santa Catalina Mountains
The range north of Tucson, rising to 9,157 feet at Mount Lemmon and climbed by the 27-mile Catalina Highway.
96Score 51.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
South Kaibab Trail
A Grand Canyon trail from Yaki Point following a ridgeline to the Colorado River, steeper and less shaded than the Bright Angel.
97Score 51.3 out of 100
Museum
Bird Cage Theatre
A former theatre in Tombstone that operated intermittently from December 1881 to 1894, and was leased as a coffee shop from 1934.
98Score 51.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Isis Temple
A Coconino Sandstone prominence in the Grand Canyon, five miles north of Grand Canyon Village and only slightly below its elevation.
99Score 51.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site
A National Historic Landmark on the San Pedro River where Paleo-Indians killed mammoths 11,000 to 12,000 years before the present.
100Score 51.2 out of 100
Historic Site
St. Mary's Basilica
The oldest Catholic parish church in the greater Phoenix area, built between 1902 and 1914 and raised to minor basilica in 1985.
101Score 51.2 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Superstition Mountain
A landmark mountain east of Apache Junction anchoring the Superstition Mountains and central to the Lost Dutchman legend.
102Score 51.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Fossil Creek
A perennial travertine-forming stream below the Mogollon Rim, one of only two Arizona streams in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
103Score 51.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Willcox Playa
A 40-square-mile dry lake beside Willcox, remnant of Pleistocene Lake Cochise and a National Natural Landmark since 1966.
104Score 50.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Awatovi Ruins
A National Historic Landmark on the Hopi Reservation holding a pueblo about 500 years old and a 17th-century Spanish mission.
105Score 50.7 out of 100
Landmark
Chevelon Creek Bridge
A steel Warren pony truss bridge south-east of Winslow, among the first built by Arizona after statehood and listed in 1983.
106Score 50.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Tempe Town Lake
An artificial reservoir on the Salt River in Tempe, fed largely by Colorado River water through the Central Arizona Project.
107Score 50.5 out of 100
Landmark
Caduceus Cellars
A winery in Jerome owned by Maynard James Keenan, the vocalist of the rock band Tool, and named after the caduceus.
108Score 50.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Canyon Lake
The smallest of four Salt River reservoirs, formed by Mormon Flat Dam in 1925 and covering 950 acres in the Superstition Wilderness.
109Score 50.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Four Peaks
A four-summit massif in the Mazatzal Mountains east of Phoenix, rising to 7,659 feet at Brown's Peak, the highest point in Maricopa County.
110Score 50.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Kinishba Ruins
A 600-room Mogollon great house on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, a National Historic Landmark administered by the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
111Score 50.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mummy Mountain (Arizona)
A mountain in Paradise Valley, residential on its slopes and conservation land at its summit, with the Camelback Inn below since 1936.
112Score 50.5 out of 100
National Monument
Sunset Crater
The youngest volcano in the San Francisco volcanic field, erupted around 1085 CE north of Flagstaff.
73,260 recreation visits in 2024.
113Score 50.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Gammage Memorial Auditorium
A Frank Lloyd Wright performing arts centre at Arizona State University in Tempe, built between 1962 and 1964.
114Score 50.1 out of 100
Waterfall
Grand Falls
A seasonal waterfall on the Little Colorado River near Flagstaff, formed where lava from Merriam Crater dammed the river.
115Score 50.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Lake Mohave
A Colorado River reservoir between Hoover and Davis dams on the Nevada–Arizona border, part of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
116Score 50.1 out of 100
Museum
Poozeum
A museum in Williams devoted to coprolites, holding 8,000 specimens including the largest yet found from a carnivore.
117Score 50.1 out of 100
Museum
Rosson House
An 1890s Victorian house museum in Heritage Square, Downtown Phoenix, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
118Score 50.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Hunt's Tomb
A white pyramid in Papago Park holding George W. P. Hunt, the first governor of Arizona, and his family, built in 1931.
119Score 49.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Anthem Veterans Memorial
A memorial in Anthem whose five pillars are cut to light the Great Seal of the United States at 11:11 am each Veterans Day.
120Score 49.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Charleston
A ghost town on the San Pedro River in Cochise County that milled silver ore from Tombstone in the 1870s and 1880s.