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727 attractions

241Score 44.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Camp Bouse
A secret camp of the US Army's Desert Training Center in western Arizona, 25 miles from the town of Bouse.
242Score 44.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Colossal Cave Mountain Park
A dry karst cave near Vail with 3.9 miles of mapped passages, used by Hohokam, Sobaipuri and Apache people.
243Score 44.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mazatzal Mountains
A range north-east of Phoenix rising to Mazatzal Peak at 7,903 feet, with 252,500 acres protected as wilderness.
244Score 44.3 out of 100
Historic Site
City of Mesa Cemetery
A historic cemetery on North Center Street in Mesa, holding the graves of early citizens, mayors and veterans.
245Score 44.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Hackberry
An unincorporated community on the old Route 66, 28 miles north-east of Kingman, with 103 residents in 2020.
246Score 44.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
McDowell Mountains
A range twenty miles north-east of downtown Phoenix, rising to East End at 4,069 feet and preserved by Scottsdale.
247Score 44.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
North Kaibab Trail
The Grand Canyon's North Rim trail, descending steeply to Roaring Springs and on to the Colorado River.
248Score 44.2 out of 100
Historic Site
Cathedral of Saint Augustine
The cathedral and mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson, known in Spanish as the Catedral de San Agustín.
249Score 44.2 out of 100
Landmark
Phantom Ranch
A lodge at the bottom of the Grand Canyon beside Bright Angel Creek, opened in 1922 and a member of Historic Hotels of America.
250Score 44.1 out of 100
Landmark
Arizona Financial Theatre
A 5,000-seat multi-use theatre in Downtown Phoenix, opened as the Dodge Theatre and now named the Arizona Financial Theatre.
251Score 44.1 out of 100
Historic Site
La Paz
A gold rush town on the Colorado River, founded in 1862 and long abandoned before La Paz County took its name.
252Score 44.1 out of 100
Canyon
Madera Canyon
A canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains south-east of Tucson, within the Coronado National Forest and known for its migrating birds.
253Score 44.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Chiricahua Peak
The highest point of the Chiricahua Mountains and of Cochise County, at 9,773 feet, with southernmost Engelmann spruce.
254Score 44.0 out of 100
State Park
Tonto Natural Bridge State Park
Believed to be the largest natural travertine bridge in the world, standing 183 feet over a 400-foot tunnel.
125,968 visits in 2024.
255Score 43.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Agua Caliente
A place in Maricopa County north of the Gila River, named in 1744 for hot springs that later carried a resort.
256Score 43.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Tonto Basin
The drainage basin of Tonto Creek in central Arizona, running south-west of the Mogollon Rim to Theodore Roosevelt Lake.
257Score 43.7 out of 100
National Historic Site
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
The oldest continuously operated trading post on the Navajo Nation, preserved as a National Historic Site.
46,419 recreation visits in 2024.
258Score 43.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Parker Canyon Lake
A reservoir in the Canelo Hills of Cochise County, 28 miles south-west of Sierra Vista and 5 miles from Mexico.
259Score 43.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Fairbank
A ghost town on the San Pedro River, settled in 1881 as the nearest rail stop to Tombstone and now inside a conservation area.
260Score 43.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Hermit's Rest
A 1914 Mary Colter building at the western end of Hermit Road on the Grand Canyon's south rim, and a National Historic Landmark.
261Score 43.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Lynx Lake
A 55-acre reservoir in the Bradshaw Mountains east of Prescott, formed by a dam on Lynx Creek in 1963 and stocked for fishing.
262Score 43.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Walnut Grove Dam
A dam on the Hassayampa River north of Wickenburg, built from 1886 for gold mining, whose failure in 1890 killed over 100 people.
263Score 43.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Rialto Theatre
A performance theatre and concert venue on Congress Street in downtown Tucson, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
264Score 43.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Schieffelin Hall
An 1881 adobe opera house, theatre and meeting hall at Tombstone, described as the largest standing adobe structure in the South-West.
265Score 43.1 out of 100
Historic Site
Tip Top
Tip Top is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, settled in 1876 in what was then Arizona Territory.
266Score 43.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Cienega of San Simon
A former cienega, or area of springs, 13 miles up the San Simon River from San Simon Station in Cochise County.
267Score 43.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Willow Springs Lake
A canyon-bound cold-water lake on the Mogollon Rim, 23 miles east of Payson, and one of the Rim Lakes in the Apache-Sitgreaves forests.
268Score 43.0 out of 100
State Historic Park
Yuma Territorial Prison
A prison that took inmates from 1876 to 1909, now operated as a museum by Arizona State Parks in Yuma.
51,262 visits in 2024.
269Score 42.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Black Mountains
A 75-mile range in north-western Arizona along the Colorado River below Hoover Dam, holding three wilderness areas and the mining site of Oatman.
270Score 42.9 out of 100
Landmark
McKale Center
The University of Arizona's athletic arena in Tucson, home of the Wildcats basketball team of the Big 12 Conference.
271Score 42.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Fox Tucson Theatre
A performance space in downtown Tucson that opened on 11 April 1930 and stages ballet, jazz, pop, world music and rock.
272Score 42.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Mary Jane Colter buildings
Four Grand Canyon buildings designed by Mary Colter between 1905 and 1932, declared a National Historic Landmark as a set in 1987.
273Score 42.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Ray
A Pinal County ghost town beside a large copper mine, emptied from 1958 when Kennecott moved its residents to the new town of Kearny.
274Score 42.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Camp Hyder
A Desert Training Center subcamp south of Hyder, built in August 1942 and closed in May 1944, where two infantry divisions trained.
275Score 42.7 out of 100
Zoo or Aquarium
Wildlife World Zoo
A 215-acre zoo and aquarium at Litchfield Park near Phoenix, specialising in African and South American animals.
276Score 42.6 out of 100
Landmark
Castles N' Coasters
A 14-acre amusement park in Phoenix, built in 1976, with two roller coasters and four 18-hole miniature golf courses.
277Score 42.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Cleator
A near ghost town and small community in Yavapai County, Arizona, formerly known as Turkey Creek or Turkey.
278Score 42.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Granite Dells
Exposed granite bedrock and boulders north of Prescott, eroded into a rippled form and holding Watson and Willow lakes.
279Score 42.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Lava River Cave
A 0.75-mile lava tube west of Flagstaff, the longest known in Arizona, formed by an eruption 650,000 to 700,000 years ago.
280Score 42.6 out of 100
State Park
Patagonia Lake State Park
A 250-acre lake south of Patagonia, created by damming Sonoita Creek, used for fishing, boating and birding.
235,502 visits in 2024.
281Score 42.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Toroweap Overlook
The only viewpoint in Grand Canyon National Park with the Colorado River vertically below, 3,000 feet down on the remote North Rim.
282Score 42.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Pete Kitchen Ranch
A ranch established on Potrero Creek near Nogales in about 1862, reputed to be the first permanent American ranch in Arizona.
283Score 42.5 out of 100
Canyon
Sycamore Canyon
A 21-mile canyon below the Mogollon Rim west of Sedona, the second largest in the Arizona redrock country after Oak Creek Canyon.
284Score 42.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
A refuge of over 665,400 acres north-east of Yuma, established in 1939 for desert bighorn sheep and holding the Kofa Wilderness.
285Score 42.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Pinnacle Peak
A 3,169-foot granite summit in Scottsdale, inside a 150-acre city park crossed by a 1.75-mile trail; the summit requires climbing.
286Score 42.4 out of 100
Landmark
Salt River Fields at Talking Stick
The spring-training ground of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies, and the first Major League ballpark built on tribal land.
287Score 42.3 out of 100
Landmark
Arizona Canal
A canal of nearly 50 miles across Maricopa County, built in the late 1880s and the northernmost in the Salt River Project system.
288Score 42.3 out of 100
Waterfall
Arizona Falls
A waterfall in Phoenix where the Arizona Canal crosses a 20-foot drop, rebuilt in the early 2000s as public art and a working power station.
289Score 42.3 out of 100
Historic Site
John Osterman Gas Station
A historic Route 66 service station in Peach Springs, owned by the Hualapai and listed on the National Register in 2012.
290Score 42.2 out of 100
Museum
Casa Malpaís Archeological Site and Museum
An Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site near Springerville with an astronomical calendar, great kiva and petroglyphs, an NHL since 1964.
291Score 42.2 out of 100
Historic Site
Fort Buchanan
An 1856 US Army post south-west of Sonoita, burned by Apaches in 1865 and abandoned; its ruins were rediscovered in 1929.
292Score 42.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Agassiz Peak
Arizona's second-highest mountain at 12,360 feet, north of Flagstaff, open to climbers only in winter when it is under snow.
293Score 42.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Havasupai Trail
The main trail to Supai and Havasu Falls; the alternative routes are unmaintained and require special permission to use.
294Score 42.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
The Needles
A group of rock pinnacles beside Topock Gorge and the Colorado River, rising from 1,207 to over 1,600 feet in the Mojave Mountains.
295Score 42.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Ventana Cave
A southern Arizona archaeological site excavated from 1941, whose Pleistocene-age finds were redated and reinterpreted by later researchers.
296Score 41.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Beaver Dam Wash
A seasonal stream running from Nevada to the Virgin River in Arizona, holding Utah's lowest point at 2,179 feet and desert tortoise habitat.
297Score 41.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Sulphur Springs Valley
A valley in the eastern half of Cochise County, the large flatland west of the Chiricahua and Dos Cabezas mountains.
298Score 41.9 out of 100
Historic Site
Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza
An urban park in front of the Arizona state capitol in downtown Phoenix, holding memorials to figures, wars and events in state history.
299Score 41.8 out of 100
Historic Site
Camp Grant
A US military post at the San Pedro River and Aravaipa Creek, built in 1860 as Fort Breckinridge and replaced in 1872; little of it remains.
300Score 41.8 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Escudilla Mountain
The third-highest mountain peak in Arizona, in the White Mountains, where the state's last grizzly bear was killed in 1936.