Home Counties Coconino County 109 attractions
1 Score 97.6 out of 100 97.6
National Park
A mile-deep gorge cut by the Colorado River through two billion years of rock, and the fifteenth US national park.
2 Score 79.2 out of 100 79.2
National Recreation Area
A National Park Service unit around Lake Powell, covering 1.25 million acres of high desert in Arizona and Utah.
3 Score 76.1 out of 100 76.1
Natural Landmark
An impact crater 3,900 feet across in northern Arizona, and the first on Earth confirmed to have been formed by a meteorite.
4 Score 70.7 out of 100 70.7
Canyon
A system of six slot canyons on Navajo Nation land near Page, entered only with an authorised Navajo guide.
5 Score 68.3 out of 100 68.3
Natural Landmark
A Colorado River reservoir on the Utah–Arizona line, created by Glen Canyon Dam and visited by about two million people a year.
6 Score 64.9 out of 100 64.9
Natural Landmark
A banded sandstone formation in the Coyote Buttes, reached only by permit lottery and a difficult hike.
7 Score 64.9 out of 100 64.9
National Monument
A 293,689-acre monument south of the Utah line protecting the Paria Plateau, Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon and the Wave.
8 Score 64.8 out of 100 64.8
Waterfall
A waterfall on Havasu Creek in the Grand Canyon, lying within the tribal lands of the Havasupai people.
9 Score 64.1 out of 100 64.1
Natural Landmark
An incised meander of the Colorado River near Page, viewed from a clifftop overlook 1,000 feet above the water.
10 Score 63.4 out of 100 63.4
Historic Site
A Roman Catholic chapel built into the red rock buttes of Sedona between 1954 and 1956, listed on the National Register in 2011.
11 Score 61.0 out of 100 61.0
Observatory
The Flagstaff observatory where Pluto was discovered in 1930, founded in 1894 and still open for public observing.
12 Score 60.0 out of 100 60.0
Natural Landmark
A topographical feature running some 200 miles across northern Arizona, forming the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau.
13 Score 59.4 out of 100 59.4
Natural Landmark
A volcanic range north of Flagstaff, crowned by Humphreys Peak at 12,633 feet, the highest point in Arizona.
14 Score 58.9 out of 100 58.9
National Monument
A national monument of more than 900,000 acres around the Grand Canyon, designated in 2023 and closed permanently to new uranium mining.
15 Score 58.6 out of 100 58.6
Natural Landmark
A 1.6-million-acre national forest bordering both rims of the Grand Canyon, divided into three ranger districts.
16 Score 57.2 out of 100 57.2
Natural Landmark
An extinct volcanic cinder cone with an interior crater, standing about 50 miles north-east of Flagstaff in northern Arizona.
17 Score 56.9 out of 100 56.9
National Monument
Red sandstone pueblos built by ancestral Puebloan farmers near Flagstaff, including a hundred-room great house.
18 Score 56.3 out of 100 56.3
Canyon
A canyon cut by 169.6 miles of the Colorado River, most of it submerged by Lake Powell after Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1963.
19 Score 55.3 out of 100 55.3
State Park
A natural water slide formed by the bed of Oak Creek north of Sedona, set on a 43-acre working apple farm.
20 Score 55.0 out of 100 55.0
Natural Landmark
Cheops Pyramid is a summit of 5,401 feet elevation standing within the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona.
21 Score 54.7 out of 100 54.7
National Monument
Sinagua cliff dwellings in the ledges of a canyon near Flagstaff, reached by a trail that drops 185 feet.
22 Score 54.2 out of 100 54.2
Canyon
A river gorge between Flagstaff and Sedona, followed for 13 miles by State Route 89A after a descent of hairpin turns.
23 Score 53.8 out of 100 53.8
Natural Landmark
The most popular trail in Grand Canyon National Park, descending from Bright Angel Lodge by switchbacks to Indian Gardens.
24 Score 53.1 out of 100 53.1
Natural Landmark
A permit-only section of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in Navajo Sandstone, containing the formation known as the Wave.
25 Score 52.5 out of 100 52.5
Natural Landmark
A Colorado River crossing in Coconino County, and the gauging point dividing the river's Upper and Lower Basins since the 1920s.
26 Score 52.3 out of 100 52.3
Natural Landmark
A summit within the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, standing at an elevation of 7,533 feet.
27 Score 52.2 out of 100 52.2
Historic Site
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.
28 Score 51.4 out of 100 51.4
Natural Landmark
A Grand Canyon trail from Yaki Point following a ridgeline to the Colorado River, steeper and less shaded than the Bright Angel.
29 Score 51.3 out of 100 51.3
Natural Landmark
A Coconino Sandstone prominence in the Grand Canyon, five miles north of Grand Canyon Village and only slightly below its elevation.
30 Score 50.5 out of 100 50.5
National Monument
The youngest volcano in the San Francisco volcanic field, erupted around 1085 CE north of Flagstaff.
31 Score 50.1 out of 100 50.1
Waterfall
A seasonal waterfall on the Little Colorado River near Flagstaff, formed where lava from Merriam Crater dammed the river.
32 Score 50.1 out of 100 50.1
Museum
A museum in Williams devoted to coprolites, holding 8,000 specimens including the largest yet found from a carnivore.
33 Score 49.8 out of 100 49.8
Natural Landmark
An 800-mile National Scenic Trail crossing Arizona from Mexico to Utah, completed in 2011 and open to walkers, riders and cyclists.
34 Score 49.7 out of 100 49.7
Landmark
A heritage railroad running 64 miles from Williams to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, completed in 1901 and revived in 1989.
35 Score 49.1 out of 100 49.1
Natural Landmark
A high plateau almost entirely within Coconino County, also known as Buckskin Mountain, Buckskin Plateau and Kaibab Mountain.
36 Score 49.1 out of 100 49.1
Natural Landmark
The second step of the Grand Staircase of the Colorado Plateau, extending west from near Page across northern Arizona and southern Utah.
37 Score 48.7 out of 100 48.7
Natural Landmark
A 7,646-foot butte in the Grand Canyon, named by Clarence Dutton and searched in 1937 for species isolated from the plateau.
38 Score 48.4 out of 100 48.4
Canyon
An 81-mile incised meander east of Flagstaff, spanned by an 1882 railway bridge, an old Route 66 crossing and Interstate 40.
39 Score 47.9 out of 100 47.9
Natural Landmark
A dormant lava dome rising to 9,301 feet above Flagstaff, crossed by Coconino National Forest trails including the Elden Lookout Trail.
40 Score 47.6 out of 100 47.6
Natural Landmark
A cinder cone 25 miles north of Flagstaff with a lava flow running 4.3 miles north, used by astronauts to train for moonwalking.
41 Score 47.3 out of 100 47.3
Natural Landmark
A dry cave system 210 feet below ground near Peach Springs, among the largest of its kind in the United States.
42 Score 47.2 out of 100 47.2
Natural Landmark
A 10,425-foot lava dome in the San Francisco volcanic field north of Flagstaff, carrying a fire lookout staffed since the early 1900s.
43 Score 46.7 out of 100 46.7
Historic Site
A census-designated place on the Grand Canyon's South Rim whose historic core is a National Historic Landmark District of tourist-era buildings.
44 Score 46.4 out of 100 46.4
Natural Landmark
A 7,721-foot Grand Canyon summit near Cape Royal on the North Rim, rising 5,200 feet above the Colorado and named for the god Wotan.
45 Score 45.6 out of 100 45.6
Landmark
An alpine ski resort on the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, running since 1938 and with a 2,300-foot vertical drop.
46 Score 45.6 out of 100 45.6
Natural Landmark
A 112,500-acre wilderness of broad plateaus, tall escarpments and deep canyons on the Colorado Plateau, designated in 1984.
47 Score 45.5 out of 100 45.5
Natural Landmark
A shallow intermittent lake in Pleasant Valley, Arizona's largest natural lake when full and a remnant marsh when it is not.
48 Score 45.5 out of 100 45.5
Natural Landmark
A 55-acre reservoir on the Mogollon Rim east of Payson, the most developed of the Rim Lakes and stocked with trout.
49 Score 45.4 out of 100 45.4
Landmark
An 11,230-seat indoor stadium at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, home to the NAU Lumberjacks.
50 Score 45.2 out of 100 45.2
Landmark
Twin steel arch bridges over Marble Canyon near Lees Ferry, the first dedicated in 1929 and the second opened in 1995.
51 Score 45.0 out of 100 45.0
Historic Site
Mary Colter's first Grand Canyon building, opened in 1905 as a market for Hopi crafts and modelled on a Hopi pueblo.
52 Score 44.6 out of 100 44.6
Natural Landmark
A paved 13-mile trail along the Grand Canyon's South Rim, from the South Kaibab Trailhead west to Hermit's Rest.
53 Score 44.6 out of 100 44.6
Historic Site
A ghost town on U.S. Route 66 in Coconino County, between the city of Flagstaff and the town of Winslow.
54 Score 44.3 out of 100 44.3
Natural Landmark
The Grand Canyon's North Rim trail, descending steeply to Roaring Springs and on to the Colorado River.
55 Score 44.2 out of 100 44.2
Landmark
A lodge at the bottom of the Grand Canyon beside Bright Angel Creek, opened in 1922 and a member of Historic Hotels of America.
56 Score 43.5 out of 100 43.5
Historic Site
A 1914 Mary Colter building at the western end of Hermit Road on the Grand Canyon's south rim, and a National Historic Landmark.
57 Score 43.0 out of 100 43.0
Natural Landmark
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.
58 Score 42.8 out of 100 42.8
Historic Site
Four Grand Canyon buildings designed by Mary Colter between 1905 and 1932, declared a National Historic Landmark as a set in 1987.
59 Score 42.6 out of 100 42.6
Natural Landmark
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.
60 Score 42.5 out of 100 42.5
Canyon
A 21-mile canyon below the Mogollon Rim west of Sedona, the second largest in the Arizona redrock country after Oak Creek Canyon.
61 Score 42.1 out of 100 42.1
Natural Landmark
Arizona's second-highest mountain at 12,360 feet, north of Flagstaff, open to climbers only in winter when it is under snow.
62 Score 42.0 out of 100 42.0
Natural Landmark
The main trail to Supai and Havasu Falls; the alternative routes are unmaintained and require special permission to use.
63 Score 41.4 out of 100 41.4
Museum
A Flagstaff museum founded in 1928, holding Indigenous material and natural history collections from the Colorado Plateau.
64 Score 41.1 out of 100 41.1
Natural Landmark
A dark red sandstone unit 800 to 1,000 feet thick near Sedona, lying between the Coconino Sandstone and the Hermit Formation.
65 Score 40.9 out of 100 40.9
Historic Site
A historic building on the Grand Canyon's South Rim, run from 1904 to 1976 as the photographic studio of Ellsworth and Emery Kolb.
66 Score 40.8 out of 100 40.8
Natural Landmark
A hiking trail on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Grand Canyon National Park, northern Arizona.
67 Score 40.6 out of 100 40.6
Zoo or Aquarium
A drive-through safari park on Historic Route 66 near Williams, founded in 2010 and known for its black bear cubs.
68 Score 40.0 out of 100 40.0
Natural Landmark
A South Rim viewpoint at 7,119 feet, named after Stephen Tyng Mather and looking north across Granite Gorge up Bright Angel Canyon.
69 Score 40.0 out of 100 40.0
Observatory
The national dark-sky observing facility of the United States Naval Observatory, near Flagstaff, and joint manager of the Celestial Reference Frame.
70 Score 39.9 out of 100 39.9
Natural Landmark
A lava dome volcano in the Kaibab National Forest south of Williams, forming part of the San Francisco volcanic field.
71 Score 39.8 out of 100 39.8
Historic Site
A Coconino National Forest campsite linked to Clinton Hart Merriam, the United States' first eco-biologist, and a landmark since 1965.
72 Score 39.8 out of 100 39.8
Historic Site
A Coconino County site where 1940s excavations found Hohokam pit houses, though later researchers link finds to the Sinagua instead.
73 Score 38.6 out of 100 38.6
Landmark
A steel arch bridge carrying U.S. Route 89 over the Colorado River, its deck 700 feet up; the world's highest arch bridge when built in 1959.
74 Score 38.5 out of 100 38.5
Natural Landmark
A steep, marginally maintained trail in Grand Canyon National Park, descending from the South Rim to the Colorado River past fossilised reptile tracks.
75 Score 37.8 out of 100 37.8
Landmark
A 440-foot span carrying the South Kaibab Trail across the Colorado River, and the mule crossing to Phantom Ranch.
76 Score 37.6 out of 100 37.6
Observatory
A 4.3-metre telescope operated by Lowell Observatory near Happy Jack, the fifth largest optical telescope in the continental United States.
77 Score 35.2 out of 100 35.2
Landmark
An abandoned bridge that carried Route 66 over Canyon Diablo, 30 miles east of Flagstaff near the ghost town of Two Guns.
78 Score 32.7 out of 100 32.7
Canyon
A 478-acre Flagstaff preserve of Sinagua petroglyphs, bought by the city in 2012 after decades of community campaigning.
79 Score 32.4 out of 100 32.4
Natural Landmark
An 1893 miners' trail on the Grand Canyon's South Rim, descending from Grandview Point to Horseshoe Mesa past surviving mining relics.
80 Score 30.0 out of 100 30.0
Botanical Garden
A 7,150-foot botanical garden west of Flagstaff with 750 plant species, endowed in 1981 by donor Frances McAllister.
81 Score 28.4 out of 100 28.4
State Historic Park
An Arizona state park in Flagstaff preserving the duplex mansion of the lumber barons Timothy and Michael Riordan.
82 Score 26.4 out of 100 26.4
Canyon
A Page, Arizona slot canyon with a more open top than Upper Antelope Canyon, accessible only by guided tour.
83 Score 26.4 out of 100 26.4
Canyon
A side canyon of Oak Creek Canyon, walked rather than viewed: the trail follows a stream between cliffs the Forest Service calls dizzying, crossing the water repeatedly on stepping stones. It is maintained and easy for the first three miles, and runs another eleven into wilderness beyond that. The Forest Service calls it one of the most popular trails on the Coconino National Forest; dogs must be leashed, nothing mechanised is allowed, and a day-use fee applies at the Call of the Canyon car park.
84 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Historic Site
An 8-foot bronze statue in Williams, Arizona, by B. R. Pettit, depicting "Old Bill" Williams, the town's namesake.
85 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
A 2-mile, cairn-marked Sedona trail to Chicken Point, passing Submarine Rock and shared with Pink Jeep tours and mountain bikers.
86 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Cathedral Wash Trail, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
87 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Historic Site
Cliff Dwellers Stone House, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
88 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Historic Site
A Sinagua archaeological site in Flagstaff with an interpretive trail, managed by the Coconino National Forest Service for education programs.
89 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
A cliffside swimming hole on Oak Creek about two miles north of Sedona, shaded and cool enough that the Forest Service recommends it as a respite from the summer heat. Picnic tables and vault toilets, no drinking water, and no camping — it is day-use only, and a fee applies. Allen's Bend trail leaves the car park, running north towards Casner Canyon and south towards Huckaby.
90 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Paria River, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
91 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Snoopy Rock, near Sedona, Arizona, is a rock formation that from one side resembles the Snoopy dog character lying on his back.
92 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Soap Creek Trail, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
93 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Spencer Trail, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
94 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
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95 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Vermilion Cliffs Trail, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
96 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
White Pocket, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, is a sandstone formation whose thin grey cover layer resembles an iced marble cake.
97 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
A Flagstaff arts museum described as the largest gallery in northern Arizona, showing local and regional artists' work.
98 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
A small Flagstaff museum in a 1929 former National Guard facility, with displays on regional military history.
99 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
The Northern Arizona University Art Museum, in Flagstaff, Arizona, holds rotating exhibits of local and international art.
100 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
Pioneer Museum, in Flagstaff, Arizona, collects and exhibits artefacts and photographs on the history of Flagstaff and northern Arizona.
101 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
Planes of Fame Air Museum, in Williams, Arizona, is a branch of the Chino, California air museum, and most of its aircraft on display are flyable.
102 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
Sedona Heritage Museum, in Sedona, Arizona, is dedicated to the history of the town's early white settlement.
103 Score 19.8 out of 100 19.8
104 Score 19.8 out of 100 19.8
Landmark
Flagstaff Extreme Adventure Course is a suspended obstacle course in Flagstaff, Arizona, with more than 70 aerial challenges for children and adults.
105 Score 19.8 out of 100 19.8
Landmark
A Flagstaff-area cross-country ski centre with over 50 km of groomed trails, open for hiking and mountain biking in summer.
106 Score 19.8 out of 100 19.8
Landmark
A Tusayan cinema near the Grand Canyon's South Rim that screens the half-hour National Geographic film Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets.
107 Score 19.8 out of 100 19.8
Landmark
Lonely Dell Ranch, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
108 Score 19.8 out of 100 19.8
Landmark
Red Heritage Indigenous Entertainment Hall, in Page, Arizona, is a Native American dinner theatre featuring powwow dancing and live drum music.
109 Score 19.8 out of 100 19.8
Landmark
Wild West Junction, in Williams, Arizona, is a wild-west-themed village with a museum, restaurants, hotels, shops, and entertainment.