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727 attractions

421Score 36.5 out of 100
Landmark
Arizona Renaissance Festival
A Renaissance fair at Gold Canyon in Pinal County, first run in 1989 and held from mid-winter to early spring as the village of Fairhaven.
422Score 36.5 out of 100
Zoo or Aquarium
Sea Life Arizona
A 26,000-square-foot aquarium at Tempe's Arizona Mills mall, with 30 displays, touch pools and a 360-degree ocean tunnel.
423Score 36.4 out of 100
Landmark
Round Valley Ensphere
A wooden-domed stadium at Eagar owned by Round Valley High School, opened in 1991–92 and seating 5,500 for football.
424Score 36.0 out of 100
Museum
Arizona State Museum
Arizona's 1893 territorial museum of archaeological resources, now operated by the University of Arizona on its Tucson campus.
425Score 36.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Canelo Hills Cienega Reserve
A 260-acre Sonoita-area wetland reserve protecting the rare Canelo ladies' tresses orchid, a National Natural Landmark since 1974.
426Score 36.0 out of 100
Landmark
Castle Hot Springs
A restored resort in the Hieroglyphic Mountains at Morristown, opened in 1896 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
427Score 36.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Onyx Cave
A half-mile solutional cave in Permian limestone in the Santa Rita Mountains, designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974.
428Score 36.0 out of 100
Museum
Petersen House Museum
A restored 1892 Queen Anne Style brick house in Tempe, built by an early settler and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
429Score 35.9 out of 100
Landmark
Gillespie Dam Bridge
A through truss bridge over the Gila River, built between 1925 and 1927 and carrying U.S. Route 80 until 1956.
430Score 35.7 out of 100
Landmark
McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park
A 30-acre railway park in Scottsdale with a 15-inch gauge line, a live steam railway, a museum and three model railway clubs.
431Score 35.7 out of 100
Museum
Pioneer Living History Village
A 90-acre open-air museum between Phoenix and Anthem, recreating an 1800s frontier town across 30 original and reconstructed buildings.
432Score 35.7 out of 100
State Park
Roper Lake State Park
An Arizona state park around a 32-acre lake five miles south of Safford, below the Pinaleño Mountains.
71,481 visits in 2024.
433Score 35.2 out of 100
Landmark
Canyon Diablo Bridge
An abandoned bridge that carried Route 66 over Canyon Diablo, 30 miles east of Flagstaff near the ghost town of Two Guns.
434Score 35.2 out of 100
Botanical Garden
Tohono Chul Park
A 49-acre botanical garden and nature preserve in Casas Adobes, named one of the world's great botanical gardens by Travel + Leisure in 2008.
435Score 35.0 out of 100
Landmark
Ben Avery Shooting Facility
A 1,650-acre public shooting range in northern Phoenix, the largest publicly operated shooting facility in the United States.
436Score 35.0 out of 100
Landmark
Casa Grande Photogrammetric Test Range
272 concrete survey markers on a 16-mile grid around Casa Grande, maintained from 1959 to 1972 and commonly but wrongly linked to the Corona satellites.
437Score 34.9 out of 100
Landmark
Enchanted Island Amusement Park
A 7.5-acre amusement park at the centre of Phoenix's 222-acre Encanto Park, with nine rides, a train circling the grounds and canoe hire.
438Score 34.9 out of 100
Landmark
Her Secret Is Patience
A $2.5 million steel-and-netting sculpture by Janet Echelman in Civic Space Park, downtown Phoenix, titled from a line by Emerson.
439Score 34.9 out of 100
State Park
River Island State Park
A unit of Buckskin Mountain State Park on the Colorado River near Parker, used for camping and water recreation.
30,115 visits in 2024.
440Score 34.8 out of 100
Landmark
Desert Sun Stadium
A Yuma stadium built for the 1970 spring training season, home of the San Diego Padres until 1993 and converted for soccer in 2015.
441Score 34.8 out of 100
Landmark
Marquee Theatre
A music venue on the north side of Tempe Town Lake, opened as the Red River Opry, close to the Mill Avenue Bridge.
442Score 34.7 out of 100
Museum
Hall Of Flame Fire Museum
The world's largest historical firefighting museum, in Phoenix, holding equipment from 1725 to 1968 and the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes.
443Score 34.7 out of 100
Landmark
Turf Paradise Race Course
A thoroughbred and quarter horse racetrack in the Deer Valley section of Phoenix, opened in 1956 and racing from November through April.
444Score 34.6 out of 100
Landmark
Bucket of Blood Street
A street in the Old Downtown district of Holbrook, off former U.S. Route 66 and a block south of the 1882 Santa Fe Railroad station.
445Score 34.5 out of 100
Museum
Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West
A 43,000-square-foot museum in Old Town Scottsdale, opened in 2015, covering the art, culture and history of the American West.
446Score 34.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Bonelli House
An 1915 Kingman house listed on the National Register following a 1985 survey of 63 local historic resources.
447Score 34.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Grand Theatre
Douglas, Arizona's 1919 Grand Theatre, once host to Ginger Rogers and John Philip Sousa, is under restoration after decades of neglect.
448Score 34.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Manning Cabin
A 1905 log cabin in Saguaro National Park's Rincon Mountains, later used to house Forest Service and Park Service fire and trail crews.
449Score 34.4 out of 100
Historic Site
San Pedro Chapel
An 1915 adobe chapel built by Mexican and Sicilian immigrants in Tucson's Fort Lowell area, once the centre of the El Fuerte settlement.
450Score 34.4 out of 100
Museum
Tucson Museum of Art
A 74,000-square-foot art museum on a four-acre block in downtown Tucson, combining a modern museum with adapted 19th-century adobe houses.
451Score 33.9 out of 100
Landmark
Gillespie Dam
A 1920s concrete gravity dam on the Gila River between Buckeye and Gila Bend, part of which failed in heavy rains in 1993.
452Score 33.7 out of 100
Landmark
Arizona State Fairgrounds
A permanent fairgrounds in Phoenix hosting the Arizona State Fair, and home of the Phoenix Suns from 1968 to 1992.
453Score 33.6 out of 100
Landmark
Tucson Speedway
A 0.375-mile paved oval racetrack at the Pima County Fairgrounds, one of only three paved ovals in Arizona.
454Score 33.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mitchell Mesa
A 6,586-foot summit in Navajo County, named after a miner who died working the area alongside a partner named Merrick.
455Score 33.5 out of 100
Landmark
New Waddell Dam
An embankment dam on the Agua Fria River north-west of Phoenix, built between 1985 and 1994 and forming Lake Pleasant.
456Score 33.5 out of 100
Landmark
Symphony Hall
A Brutalist performing arts venue in downtown Phoenix, built 1969 to 1972 and home to the Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera and Ballet Arizona.
457Score 33.5 out of 100
Museum
University of Arizona Museum of Art
A University of Arizona museum with more than 6,000 works, including a 15th-century Spanish altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo.
458Score 33.3 out of 100
Museum
Strawberry Schoolhouse
An 1885 log schoolhouse in Strawberry, often called Arizona's oldest, though the 1879 Arivaca Schoolhouse predates it.
459Score 33.2 out of 100
State Park
Cattail Cove State Park
A state park on the shore of Lake Havasu, 19 miles from Lake Havasu City and eight from the Parker Strip.
83,992 visits in 2024.
460Score 33.1 out of 100
Landmark
Painted Rock Dam
An earthfill embankment dam west of Gila Bend, in Maricopa County, used primarily for flood control.
461Score 32.8 out of 100
Museum
Amerind Foundation
A private museum and research facility in Cochise County's Texas Canyon, dedicated to Native American cultures and histories.
462Score 32.8 out of 100
Landmark
Burton Barr Central Library
The flagship library of the Phoenix Public Library, holding a million volumes and named after the legislator Burton Barr.
463Score 32.8 out of 100
Botanical Garden
Tucson Botanical Gardens
A 5.5-acre Tucson collection of twenty gardens on the former Porter family home, ranked fourth in USA Today's 2025 best botanical garden poll.
464Score 32.7 out of 100
Museum
Acadia Ranch Museum
A historic Oracle ranch complex built 1885-1930, listed on the National Register in 1984 and run as a museum by the Oracle Historical Society.
465Score 32.7 out of 100
Museum
i.d.e.a. Museum
A downtown Mesa fine arts museum for children, renamed i.d.e.a. in 2014 and operated by the City of Mesa.
466Score 32.7 out of 100
Museum
Mesa Historical Museum
Mesa's 1987 history museum occupies the 1913 Lehi School and created the touring exhibit 'Play Ball: The Cactus League Experience'.
467Score 32.7 out of 100
Museum
Muheim Heritage House Museum
A fully restored 1898-1900 house museum in Bisbee named for merchant Joseph Muheim, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
468Score 32.7 out of 100
Canyon
Picture Canyon Natural and Cultural Preserve
A 478-acre Flagstaff preserve of Sinagua petroglyphs, bought by the city in 2012 after decades of community campaigning.
469Score 32.7 out of 100
Museum
Sosa-Carrillo-Frémont House Museum
A 1870s Tucson adobe house tied to Territorial Governor John Charles Fremont, now an Arizona Historical Society museum.
470Score 32.6 out of 100
Museum
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
An Old Town Scottsdale museum of contemporary art, design and architecture, with James Turrell's Knight Rise skyspace on permanent view.
471Score 32.5 out of 100
Landmark
Luhrs Tower
An Art Deco office skyscraper in downtown Phoenix, at the south-eastern corner of First Avenue and Jefferson Street.
472Score 32.5 out of 100
Landmark
Mesa Amphitheatre
An outdoor concert venue in central Mesa with a tiered lawn and a capacity of 4,950, opened in 1979.
473Score 32.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Grandview Trail
An 1893 miners' trail on the Grand Canyon's South Rim, descending from Grandview Point to Horseshoe Mesa past surviving mining relics.
474Score 32.4 out of 100
Landmark
The Loop
A Pima County network of shared-use paths around Tucson, planned to comprise 131 miles of paved trail once complete.
475Score 32.0 out of 100
Museum
Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
A free Tucson railroad museum in the former Southern Pacific Depot's records vault, centred on steam locomotive 1673.
476Score 31.9 out of 100
State Park
Buckskin Mountain State Park
A public recreation area on the Colorado River near Parker, in two developed areas below the Buckskin Mountains.
62,681 visits in 2024.
477Score 31.7 out of 100
State Historic Park
Jerome State Historic Park
An Arizona state park in the mining town of Jerome, built around the 1916 Douglas Mansion and its museum.
46,247 visits in 2024.
478Score 31.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Brown Canyon Ranch
A historic ranch, formerly the Barchas Ranch, in the Huachuca Mountains' foothills near Sierra Vista, with trails linking to the National Forest.
479Score 31.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Camel Butte
A 5,847-foot Monument Valley summit near John Ford's Point, with dirt roads passing it on three sides.
480Score 31.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Cly Butte
Cly Butte is a summit in Navajo County, Arizona, within Monument Valley, at an elevation of 5,820 feet.