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727 attractions

121Score 49.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Poston War Relocation Center
The largest by area of the ten War Relocation Authority camps of the Second World War, holding over 17,000 people at its peak.
122Score 49.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Arizona Trail
An 800-mile National Scenic Trail crossing Arizona from Mexico to Utah, completed in 2011 and open to walkers, riders and cyclists.
123Score 49.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Tombstone Historic District
A National Historic Landmark district in Tombstone, a boom-and-bust mining town, taking in the O.K. Corral of the 1881 gunfight.
124Score 49.7 out of 100
National Monument
Chiricahua National Monument
A National Park System unit in south-eastern Arizona, established in 1924 to protect its hoodoos and balancing rocks.
71,390 recreation visits in 2024.
125Score 49.7 out of 100
Landmark
Grand Canyon Railway
A heritage railroad running 64 miles from Williams to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, completed in 1901 and revived in 1989.
126Score 49.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Painted Desert Inn
A historic complex in Petrified Forest National Park overlooking the Painted Desert, near the original alignment of U.S. Route 66.
127Score 49.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Saguaro Lake
The fourth reservoir on the Salt River, formed by Stewart Mountain Dam and managed within the Tonto National Forest.
128Score 49.6 out of 100
Canyon
Virgin River Gorge
A canyon cut by the Virgin River in north-western Arizona, carrying one of the most expensive sections of Interstate highway ever built.
129Score 49.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Black Mesa
An upland mesa in Navajo and Apache counties, named for the dark appearance of its pinyon-juniper and mixed conifer woodlands.
130Score 49.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Bell Rock
A butte of 4,919 feet south of Sedona, beside Courthouse Butte, with a moderate route to a plateau on its north-west face.
131Score 49.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Verde Valley
A central Arizona valley on the Verde River, overlooked by Mingus Mountain and one of the state's three viticultural regions.
132Score 49.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Devil's Kitchen Sinkhole
A sinkhole on the Soldier Pass Trail near Sedona, formed in the late 1880s and 840 feet deep including the cave below it.
133Score 49.3 out of 100
Zoo or Aquarium
Phoenix Zoo
A 125-acre zoo in Papago Park, opened in 1962 and the largest privately owned nonprofit zoo in the United States.
134Score 49.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Sentinel Peak
A 2,897-foot peak south-west of downtown Tucson, carrying the University of Arizona's block letter A since the 1910s.
135Score 49.2 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests
A 2.76-million-acre national forest along the Mogollon Rim and White Mountains, managed as one unit from Springerville.
136Score 49.1 out of 100
Historic Site
Hi Jolly Monument
A Quartzsite grave marker for Hi Jolly, the Syrian-born camel driver brought to America in 1856 for the army's camel experiment.
137Score 49.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Kaibab Plateau
A high plateau almost entirely within Coconino County, also known as Buckskin Mountain, Buckskin Plateau and Kaibab Mountain.
138Score 49.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Patagonia Mountains
A mountain range 15 miles long in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, lying within the Coronado National Forest.
139Score 49.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Tempe Butte
A volcanic butte on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, known locally as A Mountain for the 60-foot letter near its summit.
140Score 49.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Vermilion Cliffs
The second step of the Grand Staircase of the Colorado Plateau, extending west from near Page across northern Arizona and southern Utah.
141Score 49.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Hole-in-the-Rock (Papago Park)
A natural geological formation in Papago Park, the municipal park shared by the cities of Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona.
142Score 49.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Pearce
A ghost town and unincorporated community in the Sulphur Springs Valley of Cochise County, adjoining the settlement of Sunsites.
143Score 48.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mount Baldy
An extinct stratovolcano of 11,409 feet in eastern Arizona, the highest point in Apache County and among the most sacred to the Apache.
144Score 48.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Yuma Desert
A low-lying section of the Sonoran Desert receiving under 8 inches of rain a year, among the harshest deserts in North America.
145Score 48.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Buckhorn Baths Motel
A Pueblo Revival mineral springs resort in Mesa, opened in 1939 by Ted and Alice Sliger and closed in stages between 1999 and 2004.
146Score 48.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Shiva Temple
A 7,646-foot butte in the Grand Canyon, named by Clarence Dutton and searched in 1937 for species isolated from the plateau.
147Score 48.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Mesa Arizona Temple
The seventh operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dedicated at Mesa in 1927 and set in 20 acres of gardens.
148Score 48.6 out of 100
Observatory
Mount Graham International Observatory
A University of Arizona observatory in the Pinaleño Mountains, site of the Large Binocular Telescope and contested since construction began in 1989.
149Score 48.5 out of 100
Museum
Musical Instrument Museum
A Phoenix museum opened in 2010 holding over 15,000 instruments from nearly 200 countries, the largest of its type in the world.
150Score 48.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Santa Claus
A themed roadside stop founded near Kingman in 1937, closed to business in 1995 and demolished some time in 2021 or 2022.
151Score 48.4 out of 100
Canyon
Canyon Diablo
An 81-mile incised meander east of Flagstaff, spanned by an 1882 railway bridge, an old Route 66 crossing and Interstate 40.
152Score 48.4 out of 100
National Historic Site
Coronado National Memorial
A memorial on the Mexican border marking where Coronado's 1540 expedition entered what is now Arizona.
164,426 recreation visits in 2024.
153Score 48.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Paradise
A small ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, settled in 1901 while the area was still the Arizona Territory.
154Score 48.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Weaver's Needle
A 1,000-foot rock spire in the Superstition Mountains, tied to the legend of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine and visible for many miles.
155Score 48.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Tucson Mountains
A range immediately west of Tucson, one of four surrounding the Tucson Basin, with Wasson Peak as its high point.
156Score 48.3 out of 100
National Monument
Tuzigoot National Monument
A 110-room hilltop pueblo of stone masonry, built along a limestone ridge above the Verde River floodplain.
108,283 recreation visits in 2024.
157Score 48.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Vulture City
Vulture City is a ghost town in Maricopa County, Arizona, standing at the site of the defunct Vulture Mine.
158Score 48.2 out of 100
Landmark
Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
A 14,870-seat indoor arena at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, home of the Phoenix Suns from 1968 to 1992.
159Score 48.1 out of 100
Historic Site
Fort Whipple
A former United States Army post in Arizona, first sited at Del Rio Springs and later moved to a permanent site near Prescott.
160Score 48.1 out of 100
National Monument
Navajo National Monument
A National Park System unit on the Shonto Plateau preserving three Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings.
58,442 recreation visits in 2024.
161Score 48.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Huachuca Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona rising to 9,466 feet at Miller Peak, divided between the Coronado National Forest and Fort Huachuca.
162Score 47.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Bartlett Lake
A reservoir on the Verde River north-east of Phoenix, built between 1936 and 1939 and the first constructed on that river.
163Score 47.9 out of 100
State Park
Lost Dutchman State Park
A 320-acre park at the foot of the Superstition Mountains, named for a lost gold mine of Old West legend.
205,384 visits in 2024.
164Score 47.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mount Elden
A dormant lava dome rising to 9,301 feet above Flagstaff, crossed by Coconino National Forest trails including the Elden Lookout Trail.
165Score 47.8 out of 100
State Park
Picacho Peak State Park
The 3,374-foot spire of Picacho Peak, between Casa Grande and Tucson and visible from the city 45 miles away.
117,354 visits in 2024.
166Score 47.8 out of 100
Historic Site
St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery (Florence, Arizona)
The largest Orthodox monastic complex in the Western Hemisphere, founded in 1995 in the Sonoran Desert outside Florence.
167Score 47.6 out of 100
State Park
Catalina State Park
Foothills and canyons at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, holding nearly 5,000 saguaros.
281,405 visits in 2024.
168Score 47.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Owl Rock
A 6,547-foot sandstone summit on Navajo Nation land north of Kayenta, held sacred as a spindle left by the Holy People.
169Score 47.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Ruby
A ghost town in the Pajarita Wilderness near the Mexican border, founded as a mining camp in 1877 under the name Montana Camp.
170Score 47.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
S P Crater
A cinder cone 25 miles north of Flagstaff with a lava flow running 4.3 miles north, used by astronauts to train for moonwalking.
171Score 47.6 out of 100
Canyon
Texas Canyon
A boulder-strewn valley on Interstate 10 east of Benson, between the Dragoon and Little Dragoon Mountains, named for settlers from Texas.
172Score 47.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
El Camino Del Diablo
A 250-mile historic road across the Sonoran Desert in Pima and Yuma counties, listed on the National Register in 1978.
173Score 47.4 out of 100
Historic Site
San Bernardino Ranch
A National Historic Landmark ranch in south-eastern Cochise County, home of the lawman John Horton Slaughter from the 1880s until 1922.
174Score 47.3 out of 100
Landmark
Camelback Ranch
A spring training complex in Phoenix shared by the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox, with a 13,000-seat main stadium.
175Score 47.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Copper Queen Mine
A Bisbee copper mine worked from the 1880s on an orebody running 23 per cent copper, once the most productive in Arizona.
176Score 47.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Grand Canyon Caverns
A dry cave system 210 feet below ground near Peach Springs, among the largest of its kind in the United States.
177Score 47.2 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Kendrick Peak
A 10,425-foot lava dome in the San Francisco volcanic field north of Flagstaff, carrying a fire lookout staffed since the early 1900s.
178Score 47.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Agathla Peak
An eroded volcanic plug rising more than 1,500 feet south of Monument Valley, held sacred by the Navajo and visible from U.S. Route 163.
179Score 47.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Totem Pole
A slender rock spire in Monument Valley, the eroded remnant of a butte, standing beside the spires the Navajo call Yei Bi Chei.
180Score 46.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Hunts Mesa
A 6,370-foot mesa at the south-eastern edge of Monument Valley, reached only with a Navajo guide by way of the dunes near Kayenta.