1Score 75.5 out of 100
National Park
Saguaro National Park
Two districts of Sonoran Desert either side of Tucson, preserving the giant saguaro cactus the park is named for.
Attractions in Pima County
The 74 attractions in this database located in Pima County, Arizona.
74 attractions
- 2Score 72.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Sonoran Desert
A subtropical hot desert of 260,000 square kilometres, home to the saguaro and the organ pipe cactus. - 3Score 67.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Mission San Xavier del Bac
A Spanish Catholic mission south of Tucson, founded in 1692 and rebuilt by 1797, making it the oldest European structure in Arizona. - 4Score 61.3 out of 100
Museum
Titan Missile Museum
A deactivated Titan II missile silo south of Tucson, and the only place in the country where a complete ICBM can be seen in place. - 5Score 58.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Old Tucson Studios
A film studio and theme park west of Tucson, built in 1939 for the film Arizona and used for Westerns ever since. - 6Score 56.0 out of 100
Museum
Pima Air & Space Museum
An aerospace museum in Tucson displaying nearly 400 aircraft, and home to the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame since 1991. - 7Score 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. - 8Score 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. - 9Score 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. - 10Score 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. - 11Score 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. - 12Score 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. - 13Score 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. - 14Score 46.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
The smallest designated wilderness in Arizona, 2,065 acres around Baboquivari Peak, a technical summit sacred to the Tohono O'odham. - 15Score 46.3 out of 100
Canyon
Sabino Canyon
A canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, with waterfalls along Sabino Creek and trails through the desert. - 16Score 46.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Empire Ranch
A working cattle ranch in south-eastern Pima County, listed in 1976, whose range once spanned more than 180 square miles. - 17Score 45.4 out of 100
Zoo or Aquarium
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
A 98-acre zoo, aquarium, botanical garden and natural history museum west of Tucson, founded in 1952 to interpret the Sonoran Desert. - 18Score 45.2 out of 100
Historic Site
El Tiradito
A shrine in downtown Tucson, standing since at least 1891, to a man who died in sin and could not be buried on consecrated ground. - 19Score 45.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Miracle Mile Historic District
A Tucson historic district along North Stone Avenue, Drachman Street, Oracle Road and Miracle Mile, listed on the National Register in 2017. - 20Score 45.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Rincon Mountains
A Madrean sky island range east of Tucson, rising to Mica Mountain at 8,664 feet and named for its cornered shape. - 21Score 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. - 22Score 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. - 23Score 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. - 24Score 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. - 25Score 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. - 26Score 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. - 27Score 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. - 28Score 41.8 out of 100
Landmark
Hi Corbett Field
A baseball park in Tucson seating about 9,500, home to the University of Arizona Wildcats and formerly to two Major League clubs. - 29Score 41.7 out of 100
Zoo or Aquarium
Reid Park Zoo
A 24-acre city-owned zoo in Tucson's Reid Park, founded in 1967, holding more than 500 animals and drawing about 500,000 visitors a year. - 30Score 41.5 out of 100
Historic Site
New Cornelia mine
An inactive open-pit copper mine at Ajo, a mile and a half across and 1,100 feet deep, with tailings often called the largest US dam. - 31Score 41.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Gates Pass
A 3,172-foot mountain pass on the crest of the Tucson Mountains, west of Tucson, with overlooks lining the road through it. - 32Score 41.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mica Mountain
An 8,668-foot peak east of Tucson, the highest point in the Rincon Mountains and in Saguaro National Park. - 33Score 41.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Tumamoc Hill
An 860-acre ecological reserve and National Historic Landmark west of downtown Tucson, established by the Carnegie Institution in 1903. - 34Score 40.8 out of 100
Observatory
Mount Lemmon Observatory
A University of Arizona observatory on Mount Lemmon, 28 kilometres north-east of Tucson in the Coronado National Forest. - 35Score 40.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Tortolita Mountains
A mountain range north-west of Tucson rising to 4,696 feet, largely protected within Tortolita Mountain Park since 1986. - 36Score 40.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mount Bigelow
A peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, home to Catalina Station and the University of Arizona's 61-inch Kuiper Telescope. - 37Score 40.1 out of 100
Museum
DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun
A 10-acre Tucson site of adobe buildings designed and built by the artist Ettore DeGrazia, now a museum of his work. - 38Score 39.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Helvetia
A ghost town in Pima County settled in 1891 and abandoned in the early 1920s, most of it now fenced off by active mining. - 39Score 39.5 out of 100
Landmark
Veterans Memorial Stadium
The 11,500-seat main ballpark of Tucson's Kino Sports Complex, opened in 1998 and home to the Tucson Saguaros since 2016. - 40Score 39.1 out of 100
Historic Site
Kentucky Camp
A ghost town and former mining camp near Sonoita, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995 and maintained by the US Forest Service. - 41Score 38.3 out of 100
Observatory
McMath–Pierce Solar Telescope
A 1.6-metre solar telescope of 1962 at Kitt Peak, once the largest solar telescope and the largest unobstructed-aperture optical telescope in the world. - 42Score 38.3 out of 100
Observatory
Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope
A four-metre reflector at Kitt Peak, second-largest in the world at first light in 1973 and now host to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. - 43Score 38.0 out of 100
Landmark
Mount Lemmon Ski Valley
The southernmost ski area in the continental United States, on Mount Lemmon north of Tucson at 9,157 feet. - 44Score 37.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
A 117,107-acre US Fish and Wildlife Service refuge in Pima County, created for the reintroduction of masked bobwhite quail and pronghorn. - 45Score 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. - 46Score 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. - 47Score 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. - 48Score 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. - 49Score 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. - 50Score 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. - 51Score 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. - 52Score 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. - 53Score 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. - 54Score 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. - 55Score 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. - 56Score 31.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area
A 56,430-acre Coronado National Forest wilderness north of Tucson, created to protect Pusch Ridge's declining desert bighorn sheep. - 57Score 30.0 out of 100
Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
Tucson's Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1997, has occupied a former fire station on Church Avenue since 2010. - 58Score 28.8 out of 100
Landmark
Centennial Hall
A 1937 University of Arizona auditorium that hosted Martin Luther King Jr and other speakers, renovated in 1985 and renamed for the centenary. - 59Score 25.5 out of 100
- 60Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Loma Verde Loop
A Saguaro National Park loop trail past mesquite woodland, a seasonal wash, and the remains of the Loma Verde Mine. - 61Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Tanque Verde Ridge Trail
Tanque Verde Ridge Trail, in Saguaro National Park, Arizona. - 62Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Tucson Mountain Park
Tucson Mountain Park, south-west of Tucson, Arizona, covers a mountain range with trails through saguaro stands popular for sunset photography. - 63Score 25.5 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Valley View Overlook Trail
Valley View Overlook Trail, in Saguaro National Park, Arizona, is a short trail ending with views of Avra Valley and Picacho Peak. - 64Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Arizona History Museum
The Arizona History Museum in Tucson is devoted to the history of Tucson and the surrounding Pima County area. - 65Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
ASARCO Mineral Discovery Center
A Green Valley mining museum with exhibits on mining history and practice, open-pit mine tours, and a gift shop of local artisan work. - 66Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Center for Creative Photography
A Tucson photography museum and archive founded by Ansel Adams, which periodically exhibits its Ansel Adams collection. - 67Score 24.2 out of 100
- 68Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Fort Lowell Museum
A Tucson museum in the reconstructed officers' quarters of Fort Lowell, an Apache Wars-era army post, focused on frontier military life. - 69Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Old Pascua Museum and Yaqui Cultural Center
A Tucson museum of more than 4,000 Yaqui community artefacts, housed in a 1926 home listed on the National Register of Historic Places. - 70Score 24.2 out of 100
Museum
Philabaum Glass Gallery & Studio
Philabaum Glass Gallery & Studio, in Tucson, Arizona, has offered glassblowing demonstrations and contemporary glass art since Tom Philabaum built it in 1975. - 71Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Funtasticks Family Fun Park
A Tucson family amusement park with waterslides, bumper boats, go-karts, mini golf, and arcade games. - 72Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Leo Rich Theater
Tucson's primary venue for ballet, theatre, and musicals, and home to concerts sponsored by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. - 73Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Tucson Arena
Tucson Arena, part of the Tucson Convention Center in Arizona, has hosted the Tucson Roadrunners AHL team and events including Monster Truck shows. - 74Score 19.8 out of 100
Landmark
Tucson Music Hall
Tucson Music Hall, in Tucson, Arizona, is the home of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and the Arizona Opera.
Destinations in this county
Ajo · Altar Valley · Green Valley · Madera Canyon · Saguaro National Park · Sahuarita · Santa Catalina Mountains · Sonoita · South Central Arizona · Tucson
County is resolved from each attraction's coordinates against U.S. Census geography rather than entered by hand, so a place near a county line is filed where it actually sits.