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.
Map of Arizona Attractions
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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.
Natural Landmark
Agate Bridge
A petrified log spanning a gap between bluffs in Petrified Forest National Park, propped up by stone supports the park service added.
Historic Site
Agate House
An eight-room Puebloan pueblo in Petrified Forest National Park, built of petrified wood and occupied from about 900 to 1200.
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.
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.
National Monument
Agua Fria National Monument
A 72,344-acre national monument north of Phoenix, holding over 450 recorded Native American structures on Bureau of Land Management land.Landmark
Agua Linda Farm
A privately owned farm near Tubac that opens to the public for seasonal events such as a Garlic and Onion Festival.
State Park
Alamo Lake State Park
A remote flood control reservoir north of Wenden, and the darkest sky state park in the Arizona system.
Landmark
American Family Fields of Phoenix
The Milwaukee Brewers' spring training ballpark in the Maryvale community of Phoenix, city-owned and holding 10,000.
Museum
Amerind Foundation
A private museum and research facility in Cochise County's Texas Canyon, dedicated to Native American cultures and histories.Historic Site
Ancestral Puebloan Ruin and Petroglyphs
A Monument Valley ruin and petroglyph site on a canyon edge, fenced since 2018 to better protect it, unusually sited on the ground.Historic Site
Ancestral Puebloan Ruins
Ruins in southern Monument Valley thought to be the largest and most intact in the valley, set in a wide, shallow rock cave.Museum
Angel and Vilma Delgadillo’s Route 66 Memorabilia & Visitor’s Center
A Yavapai County Route 66 museum owned by Angel Delgadillo, whose account of the highway's bypass inspired a scripted film flashback.
Canyon
Antelope Canyon
A system of six slot canyons on Navajo Nation land near Page, entered only with an authorised Navajo guide.
Landmark
Anthem Community Park
A public park in Anthem with playgrounds, fishing holes, a splash pad, a skate park, sports courts and a walking trail.
Historic Site
Anthem Veterans Memorial
A memorial in Anthem whose five pillars are cut to light the Great Seal of the United States at 11:11 am each Veterans Day.
Natural Landmark
Apache Pass
A 5,110-foot pass between the Dos Cabezas and Chiricahua Mountains east of Willcox, known in Spanish as Puerto del Dado.
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.Landmark
Apple Annie's Orchards
A pick-your-own orchard near Willcox growing apples and peaches, which also hosts an annual October pumpkin festival.
Botanical Garden
Arboretum at Flagstaff
A 7,150-foot botanical garden west of Flagstaff with 750 plant species, endowed in 1981 by donor Frances McAllister.
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.
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.
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.Landmark
Arizona Folklore Preserve
The Arizona Folklore Preserve is a music venue near Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, that hosts musicians in concert.Museum
Arizona History Museum
The Arizona History Museum in Tucson is devoted to the history of Tucson and the surrounding Pima County area.
Museum
Arizona Museum of Natural History
A museum in Mesa exhibiting the natural and cultural history of the South-West, and the only natural history museum in greater Phoenix.
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.
Museum
Arizona Science Center
A science museum in downtown Phoenix, founded in 1984 and housed since 1997 in a building designed by Antoine Predock.
Landmark
Arizona Snowbowl
An alpine ski resort on the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, running since 1938 and with a 2,300-foot vertical drop.
Museum
Arizona State Capitol Museum
A Phoenix museum using hands-on activities, artefacts and public programmes to explain the government of the 48th state.
Landmark
Arizona State Fairgrounds
A permanent fairgrounds in Phoenix hosting the Arizona State Fair, and home of the Phoenix Suns from 1968 to 1992.
Museum
Arizona State Museum
Arizona's 1893 territorial museum of archaeological resources, now operated by the University of Arizona on its Tucson campus.
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.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Artist's Point
A Monument Valley viewpoint looking north across the valley toward the Mitten Buttes and other rock formations.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.Museum
ASU Art Museum
The ASU Art Museum in Tempe holds a permanent collection and runs a guest artist programme alongside an attached gift shop.Museum
ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
An ASU facility in Tempe supporting the Thermal Emission Spectrometer aboard the 1996 Mars Global Surveyor, with a public visitor area.Museum
ASU Museum of Anthropology
Arizona State University's anthropology museum in Tempe, run by its School of Human Evolution and Social Change.Museum
ASU Robert S. Dietz Museum of Geology
Arizona State University's geology museum in Tempe, housing minerals, gems and fossils from Arizona and worldwide.
Historic Site
Audrey Shaft Headframe Park
A Jerome mining park with Arizona's largest standing wooden headframe over a 1,900-foot shaft, viewable through a glass platform.
Historic Site
Awatovi Ruins
A National Historic Landmark on the Hopi Reservation holding a pueblo about 500 years old and a 17th-century Spanish mission.Museum
AZ Heritage Center at Papago Park
The AZ Heritage Center at Papago Park is a Tempe museum devoted to Arizona's history across the 20th and 21st centuries.Historic Site
Aztec ghost town
A ghost town near Dateland, once a Southern Pacific Railroad station, now reduced to two standing buildings and foundations.
National Monument
Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon 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.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Bat Cave mine
A former bat guano mine in a natural cave in the western Grand Canyon, 800 feet above Lake Mead at river mile 266.
Zoo or Aquarium
Bearizona
A drive-through safari park on Historic Route 66 near Williams, founded in 2010 and known for its black bear cubs.
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.
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.
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.
Historic Site
Besh-Ba-Gowah Archeological Park
A 200-room Salado masonry pueblo above Pinal Creek near Globe, occupied AD 1225-1400 and now a city archaeological park and museum.
Historic Site
Big Bug
A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, established in 1862 and lying twelve miles south-east of Prescott.Natural Landmark
Big Hogan Arch
A Monument Valley rock arch named for its hogan-like shape, once a Navajo gathering place valued for its musical echo.
Natural Landmark
Big Lake
A trout reservoir in the White Mountains of Apache County, managed by the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests and frozen over each winter.
Natural Landmark
Bill Williams Mountain
A lava dome volcano in the Kaibab National Forest south of Williams, forming part of the San Francisco volcanic field.
Historic Site
Bill Williams Statue
An 8-foot bronze statue in Williams, Arizona, by B. R. Pettit, depicting "Old Bill" Williams, the town's namesake.
Landmark
Biosphere 2
The largest closed ecological system ever created, built by 1991 and now a University of Arizona research facility.
Museum
Bird Cage Theatre
A former theatre in Tombstone that operated intermittently from December 1881 to 1894, and was leased as a coffee shop from 1934.
Museum
Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
Bisbee's mining history museum occupies the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark.
Canyon
Black Canyon of the Colorado
The canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built, named for the black volcanic rock exposed along its walls.
Natural Landmark
Black Hills Rockhound Area
A BLM-managed rockhounding site near Safford where fire agate is the most common and most valuable gemstone found.
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.
Natural Landmark
Black Mountain
A mountain between Carefree and Cave Creek in Maricopa County, with a hiking trail running to the peak.
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.
Historic Site
Bonelli House
An 1915 Kingman house listed on the National Register following a 1985 survey of 63 local historic resources.
Historic Site
Boothill Graveyard
A Tombstone graveyard of at least 250 interments, used after 1883 only for the burial of outlaws and a few others.Museum
Border Air Museum
The Border Air Museum in Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona, is dedicated to the history of cross-border aviation.Historic Site
Bouse Fisherman
A pre-Columbian desert geoglyph near Quartzsite depicting a fisherman, near a Native American lookout and stagecoach ruins.
Botanical Garden
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Arizona's oldest botanical garden, founded in 1924 on 392 acres along Queen Creek and growing more than 2,600 arid-land plant species.
Canyon
Boynton Canyon
Boynton Canyon is a box canyon located near the town of Sedona, in Yavapai County, in the U.S. state of Arizona.
Natural Landmark
Bradshaw Mountains
A mountain range in central Arizona, formerly the Silver Mountain Range, renamed after the brothers Isaac and William D. Bradshaw.
Natural Landmark
Bright Angel Trail
The most popular trail in Grand Canyon National Park, descending from Bright Angel Lodge by switchbacks to Indian Gardens.
Natural Landmark
Broken Arrow Trail
A 2-mile, cairn-marked Sedona trail to Chicken Point, passing Submarine Rock and shared with Pink Jeep tours and mountain bikers.
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.
Historic Site
Brunckow's Cabin
A ruined cabin south-west of Tombstone where at least twenty-one people were killed between 1860 and 1890, many buried on the site.
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.
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.
State Park
Buckskin Mountain State Park
A public recreation area on the Colorado River near Parker, in two developed areas below the Buckskin Mountains.
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.
Historic Site
Bumble Bee
A ghost town in the Bradshaw Mountains of Yavapai County, named for Bumble Bee Creek and used by campers in winter.
Landmark
Burton Barr Central Library
The flagship library of the Phoenix Public Library, holding a million volumes and named after the legislator Burton Barr.
Museum
Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies
ASU's meteorite research centre, renamed for Professor Peter Buseck in 2021, holds the world's largest university meteorite collection.
Historic Site
C. Hart Merriam Base Camp Site
A Coconino National Forest campsite linked to Clinton Hart Merriam, the United States' first eco-biologist, and a landmark since 1965.
Natural Landmark
Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
An 860,010-acre refuge along the Mexican border, established in 1939 for desert bighorn sheep and the third largest in the lower 48 states.
Landmark
Caduceus Cellars
A winery in Jerome owned by Maynard James Keenan, the vocalist of the rock band Tool, and named after the caduceus.
Historic Site
Calabasas
A ghost town within Rio Rico, a suburb of Nogales in Santa Cruz County, whose name is Spanish for 'pumpkins'.
Historic Site
Calabazas Mission
A Spanish mission, also known as Calabasas, in the Sonoran Desert near present-day Tumacácori, Arizona.
Natural Landmark
Camel Butte
A 5,847-foot Monument Valley summit near John Ford's Point, with dirt roads passing it on three sides.
Natural Landmark
Camelback Mountain
The highest peak in the Phoenix metropolitan area, named for its resemblance to the hump and head of a kneeling camel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Historic Site
Camp Naco
A 1917 border fort near Bisbee, said to be the only one remaining on the US-Mexico line, partly restored and partly fenced off.
Historic Site
Camp Rucker
A former U.S. Army post in the Chiricahua Mountains, abandoned in 1890, with a number of buildings still standing.
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.
National Monument
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Three canyons on Navajo Nation land, continuously inhabited for nearly 5,000 years and still farmed today.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Canyon Lake
The smallest of four Salt River reservoirs, formed by Mormon Flat Dam in 1925 and covering 950 acres in the Superstition Wilderness.
Landmark
Casa Grande Main Street District
Downtown Casa Grande's historic district, home to a number of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.
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.
National Monument
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
A four-storey Hohokam earthen building, and the first archaeological site in the US to be federally protected.
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.Museum
Castle Dome Mine Museum
The Castle Dome Mine Museum near Yuma, Arizona, is built around a collection of original and reproduced Old West buildings.
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.
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.
State Park
Catalina State Park
Foothills and canyons at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, holding nearly 5,000 saguaros.
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.
Natural Landmark
Cathedral Rock
A sandstone butte near Sedona rising to 4,967 feet, reached by a short, steep trail from the Back O' Beyond trailhead.Natural Landmark
Cathedral Wash Trail
Cathedral Wash Trail, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
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.
Museum
Cave Creek Museum
Cave Creek's history museum displays area artefacts outdoors, including the town's first church and Arizona's last tubercular cabin.
Landmark
Celebrity Theatre
A theatre in the round in Phoenix, its stage set at the centre of the auditorium with the audience seated on every side.
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.
Museum
Center for Creative Photography
A Tucson photography museum and archive founded by Ansel Adams, which periodically exhibits its Ansel Adams collection.Landmark
Cerreta Candy Factory
A chocolate and candy factory in Glendale, Arizona, offering guided tours of its production facility.
Landmark
Chandler Center for the Arts
A 1,500-seat Chandler venue jointly owned by the city and its school district, doubling as Chandler High School's home theatre.
Historic Site
Chapel of the Holy Cross
A Roman Catholic chapel built into the red rock buttes of Sedona between 1954 and 1956, listed on the National Register in 2011.
Historic Site
Charleston
A ghost town on the San Pedro River in Cochise County that milled silver ore from Tombstone in the 1870s and 1880s.
Landmark
Chase Field
The downtown Phoenix ballpark of the Arizona Diamondbacks, opened in 1998 under a retractable roof over grass.
Landmark
Chase Tower
A 40-storey tower on North Central Avenue in Phoenix, opened in 1972 and, at 483 feet, the tallest building in Arizona.
Natural Landmark
Cheops Pyramid
Cheops Pyramid is a summit of 5,401 feet elevation standing within the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona.
Landmark
Chevelon Creek Bridge
A steel Warren pony truss bridge south-east of Winslow, among the first built by Arizona after statehood and listed in 1983.
Natural Landmark
Chiricahua Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona rising to 9,759 feet at Chiricahua Peak, lying largely within the Coronado National Forest.
National Monument
Chiricahua National Monument
A National Park System unit in south-eastern Arizona, established in 1924 to protect its hoodoos and balancing rocks.
Natural Landmark
Chiricahua Peak
The highest point of the Chiricahua Mountains and of Cochise County, at 9,773 feet, with southernmost Engelmann spruce.Museum
Chiricahua Regional Museum and Research Center
A small Willcox, Arizona museum with displays focused on the local history of the surrounding region.Historic Site
Christmas
An uninhabited Gila County mining community named for the claim staked on Christmas Day 1902, once a magnet for holiday mail.
Natural Landmark
Chuska Mountains
An elongate range on the Colorado Plateau within the Navajo Nation, rising to 9,823 feet at Roof Butte in northern Arizona.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.
Historic Site
City of Mesa Cemetery
A historic cemetery on North Center Street in Mesa, holding the graves of early citizens, mayors and veterans.
Historic Site
Cleator
A near ghost town and small community in Yavapai County, Arizona, formerly known as Turkey Creek or Turkey.Historic Site
Cliff Dwellers Stone House
Cliff Dwellers Stone House, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
Natural Landmark
Cly Butte
Cly Butte is a summit in Navajo County, Arizona, within Monument Valley, at an elevation of 5,820 feet.
Historic Site
Cochise
An unincorporated community in Cochise County, founded in the 1880s as a coal and water stop on the railway.
Historic Site
Cochise County Courthouse
Bisbee's Art Deco county courthouse, designed by Roy Place, with copper doors and New Deal-era artwork including a hardware relief map.Historic Site
Cochise Stronghold
A Dragoon Mountains site believed to be the burial place of Apache chief Cochise, and the start of the five-mile Cochise Trail.Museum
Coconino Center for the Arts
A Flagstaff arts museum described as the largest gallery in northern Arizona, showing local and regional artists' work.
Natural Landmark
Coconino National Forest
A 1.856-million-acre national forest around Flagstaff and Sedona, rising from desert to Humphreys Peak at 12,633 feet.
State Historic Park
Colorado River State Historic Park
A state park in Yuma preserving the 1870s quartermaster depot that supplied the south-western frontier forts.
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.
Museum
Commemorative Air Force Museum
A Mesa museum at Falcon Field housing WWII aircraft, including the restored B-17 bomber Sentimental Journey, one of about 13 still flying.
Historic Site
Contention City
A ghost mining town in Cochise County, settled and abandoned in the 1880s with the rise and fall of silver mining near Tombstone.Historic Site
Copper Hill ghost town
A Gila County ghost town founded in 1908 with 500 residents working nearby mines, abandoned in 1933 during the Depression.Historic Site
Copper Miner
A 1935 New Deal sculpture in Bisbee, cast in concrete and copper, modelled on local resident Lee Petrovitch to honour the town's miners.
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.
Natural Landmark
Coronado National Forest
A national forest of about 1.78 million acres spread across mountain ranges in south-eastern Arizona and south-western New Mexico.
National Historic Site
Coronado National Memorial
A memorial on the Mexican border marking where Coronado's 1540 expedition entered what is now Arizona.Historic Site
Cosanti
Paolo Soleri's gallery, studio and home at Paradise Valley, built from 1956 in earth-cast concrete and known for its wind-bells.Landmark
Cosmo Dog Park
A Gilbert dog park named for Cosmo, the town's first police dog, with a swimming lake and separate areas for active and timid dogs.
Historic Site
Council Rocks
A Dragoon Mountains site amid boulders with pre-Columbian pictographs, believed to be where Cochise and General Howard negotiated an 1872 treaty.
Natural Landmark
Coyote Buttes
A permit-only section of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in Navajo Sandstone, containing the formation known as the Wave.
Natural Landmark
Crescent Moon Ranch
A Coconino National Forest day-use area on Oak Creek at Red Rock Crossing, where the water reflects Cathedral Rock — a view the Forest Service describes as one of the most photographed scenes in the Southwest. Paved paths run through picnic grounds to shallow water people wade and fish in, and a day-use fee applies. The site was a working cattle ranch; its buildings and waterwheel remain, and the ranch house is rented out by the Forest Service.Natural Landmark
Cube Rock
A small, square-shaped rock formation in eastern Monument Valley, visible north-east of Yei Bi Chei Point near the Sand Springs overlook.State Park
Dankworth Pond State Park
A subunit of Roper Lake State Park near Safford with fishing and birdwatching, and a recreated Paleo-Indian village on an interpretive trail.
Landmark
David & Gladys Wright House
A Frank Lloyd Wright house of 1950–52 in Arcadia, Phoenix, built for his son David: a curved concrete arc raised on seven piers.
Landmark
Davis Dam
A Bureau of Reclamation dam completed in 1951 on the Arizona–Nevada border, impounding the Colorado River to form Lake Mohave.
State Park
Dead Horse Ranch State Park
423 acres on the Verde River at Cottonwood, with ten miles of trail and access to the Dead Horse Trail System.
Historic Site
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
A 47-acre Phoenix preserve holding more than 1,500 Hohokam, Patayan and Archaic petroglyphs, 500 to 5,000 years old, on 500 basalt boulders.
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.
Historic Site
Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In
A Route 66 drive-in in Seligman, built in 1953 from railway scrap lumber by Juan Delgadillo and still run by his family.
Botanical Garden
Desert Botanical Garden
A 140-acre garden in Papago Park, Phoenix, holding more than 50,000 desert plants in over 4,000 taxa, a third of them locally native.
Landmark
Desert Diamond Arena
A Glendale entertainment arena at the Westgate district, home of the Arizona Coyotes from 2003 to 2022.
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.
Historic Site
Desert View Watchtower
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.Natural Landmark
Devil's Bridge Trail
A Sedona-area hiking trail leading to Devil's Bridge, described as the largest natural sandstone arch in the area.
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.Landmark
Discovery District Park
An 88-acre Gilbert park named for Columbian mammoth fossils found on site, with amusement rides, sports courts, and stocked fishing lakes.
Historic Site
Double Adobe Site
A Whitewater Draw site excavated from 1926 by Byron Cummings and Emil Haury, which defined the Cochise culture in 1941.
Historic Site
Douglas Williams House
A small museum in Douglas, Arizona, displaying historic photographs and memorabilia from the surrounding area.Landmark
Downtown Gilbert Water Tower
A downtown Gilbert park with a splash pad, home to the town's water tower and the historic Adobe Pump House, once Gilbert's first jail.
Natural Landmark
Dragoon Mountains
A 25-mile range in Cochise County named after the U.S. Cavalry Dragoons who fought the Chiricahua during the Apache Wars.
Historic Site
Dragoon Springs
A Dragoon Mountains site with a ruined Butterfield stagecoach station and Civil War graves from the First Battle of Dragoon Springs.Historic Site
Dripping Springs petroglyphs
Hundreds of pre-Columbian petroglyphs near Quartzsite, along a path past a ruined stone cabin and springs to a cliff base.
Natural Landmark
Ear of the Wind
Ear of the Wind is a rock arch in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, standing directly beside a sand dune.Historic Site
Ed Schieffelin Monument
A monument near Tombstone marking the site of Ed Schieffelin's silver claim, the discovery that led to the town's founding.
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.
Natural Landmark
El Capitan Pass
A Gila County mountain pass marked by a historical marker noting a U.S. Army march through it to California in 1846.
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.
Historic Site
Elden Pueblo Historic Site
A Sinagua archaeological site in Flagstaff with an interpretive trail, managed by the Coconino National Forest Service for education programs.
Natural Landmark
Elephant Butte
A 5,981-foot Monument Valley butte, appearing as the largest formation visible north-east of John Ford's Point.
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.
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.
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.Natural Landmark
Estrella Mountain Regional Park
A 20,000-acre Maricopa County park near Goodyear with hiking trails, ball fields, a golf course, and a rodeo arena.
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.Historic Site
Faraway Ranch
A former homestead in Chiricahua National Monument, settled in 1887 by Swedish immigrants Emma and Neil Erickson, later expanded into a house.
Landmark
Firebird Motorsports Park
A 450-acre motor racing complex south-east of Phoenix, known at various times as Firebird International Raceway and Firebird Motorsports Park.Landmark
Flagstaff Extreme Adventure Course
Flagstaff Extreme Adventure Course is a suspended obstacle course in Flagstaff, Arizona, with more than 70 aerial challenges for children and adults.Landmark
Flagstaff Nordic Center
A Flagstaff-area cross-country ski centre with over 50 km of groomed trails, open for hiking and mountain biking in summer.Natural Landmark
Flying Eagle Butte
A Monument Valley butte north of Sleeping Dragon Butte and west of Yei Bi Chei, with a canyon cutting into its south-western side.State Park
Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area
A 150-acre lake at Show Low run by Arizona State Parks, averaging 23 feet deep and holding several fish species.
Historic Site
Fort Apache Historic Park
A 288-acre White Mountain Apache tribal park at the former Fort Apache, later a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school.
Historic Site
Fort Bowie
A US Army post established in 1862 near Apache Pass, central to operations that ended with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886.
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.Museum
Fort Huachuca Museum
Fort Huachuca Museum, in Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, is a museum that includes a small gift shop.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.Museum
Fort Tuthill Military Museum
A small Flagstaff museum in a 1929 former National Guard facility, with displays on regional military history.
State Historic Park
Fort Verde State Historic Park
A small Arizona state park in Camp Verde preserving parts of an Apache Wars-era fort as it stood in the 1880s.
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.
Natural Landmark
Fossil Creek
A perennial travertine-forming stream below the Mogollon Rim, one of only two Arizona streams in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
Landmark
Four Corners Monument
The only point in the United States shared by four states, maintained by the Navajo Nation as a visitor site.
Natural Landmark
Four Peaks
A four-summit massif in the Mazatzal Mountains east of Phoenix, rising to 7,659 feet at Brown's Peak, the highest point in Maricopa County.
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.
Observatory
Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's largest field station, on the summit of Mount Hopkins near Amado.Canyon
French Joe Canyon
A Cochise County canyon near Benson named for an early prospector, known for reliable springs and used by birdwatchers.Landmark
Funtasticks Family Fun Park
A Tucson family amusement park with waterslides, bumper boats, go-karts, mini golf, and arcade games.
Natural Landmark
Galiuro Mountains
A rugged sky island range in south-eastern Arizona, taking in the Galiuro and Aravaipa Canyon wilderness areas.
Historic Site
Gammage Memorial Auditorium
A Frank Lloyd Wright performing arts centre at Arizona State University in Tempe, built between 1962 and 1964.Museum
Gammons Gulch Movie Set and Museum
A working movie set and museum near Benson, Arizona, closed to visitors during filming, with a collection of movie memorabilia and antiques.
Canyon
Garden Canyon
A Cochise County canyon near Sierra Vista with Apache and Hohokam pictograph sites, dated to around 1700 CE and 400–1250 CE respectively.
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.
Historic Site
Gatlin Site
A Hohokam platform-mound site near Gila Bend, home to over 500 people between AD 800 and 1200, excavated in 1959-60.
Historic Site
Geronimo Surrender Monument
A Chiricahua Mountains monument marking the 1886 surrender of Geronimo to General Nelson Miles, near the largely inaccessible actual site.
Museum
Gila County Historical Society
A small Globe, Arizona museum on local and regional history, run by the Gila County Historical Society, with an onsite bookshop.
Natural Landmark
Gila Mountains
A fault-blocked range 26 miles long east of Yuma, in the Sonoran Desert, rising to 3,156 feet at Sheep Peak.
Historic Site
Gila River War Relocation Center
A War Relocation Authority camp near Sacaton that held 13,348 incarcerated Japanese Americans between 1942 and 1945.
Natural Landmark
Gila Valley
The multi-sectioned valley of the Gila River, running west across Arizona from New Mexico to the Colorado River.
Historic Site
Gilbert Arizona Temple
A temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Gilbert, announced in 2008 and dedicated in 2014.
Museum
Gilbert Historical Museum
The Gilbert Historical Museum, in Gilbert, Arizona, has a variety of exhibits on the town's founding and growth.Landmark
Gilbert Regional Park
A Gilbert park with a 4,000-square-foot splash pad, a 17-foot playground, and courts for basketball, pickleball, volleyball, and tennis.
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.
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.
Historic Site
Gleeson
A ghost town in south-eastern Cochise County, first settled as Turquoise in the 1870s and re-established under its present name in 1900.
Canyon
Glen 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.
Landmark
Glen Canyon Dam Bridge
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.
National Recreation Area
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
A National Park Service unit around Lake Powell, covering 1.25 million acres of high desert in Arizona and Utah.
Landmark
Global Credit Union Arena
A 7,000-seat multi-purpose arena on the Grand Canyon University campus in Phoenix, home to its basketball and volleyball teams.
Historic Site
Gold King Mine Ghost Town
Gold King Mine Ghost Town, near Jerome, Yavapai County, Arizona, preserves the grounds of a former mine, with gold panning offered on-site.
Historic Site
Goldfield Ghost Town
An 1893 mining settlement below the Superstition Mountains, rebuilt in full as a visitor attraction.
Natural Landmark
Goldwater Lake
A reservoir on Banning Creek south of Prescott, maintained by the city and named after its longtime mayor Morris Goldwater.
Landmark
Goodyear Ballpark
The spring training ground of the Cleveland Guardians and Cincinnati Reds, a 9,500-seat stadium in Goodyear that opened in 2009.
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.Landmark
Grand Canyon IMAX Theater
A Tusayan cinema near the Grand Canyon's South Rim that screens the half-hour National Geographic film Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets.
National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
A mile-deep gorge cut by the Colorado River through two billion years of rock, and the fifteenth US national park.
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.
Landmark
Grand Canyon Skywalk
A horseshoe-shaped glass-floored cantilever bridge at Eagle Point in Grand Canyon West, owned by the Hualapai tribe and opened in 2007.
Historic Site
Grand Canyon Village Historic District
A census-designated place on the Grand Canyon's South Rim whose historic core is a National Historic Landmark District of tourist-era buildings.
Waterfall
Grand Falls
A seasonal waterfall on the Little Colorado River near Flagstaff, formed where lava from Merriam Crater dammed the river.Historic Site
Grand Gulch Mine
A ruined former copper mine in Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, reached by a rough road that can defeat standard pickup trucks.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Granite Basin Lake
A reservoir near Prescott, within the Prescott National Forest and adjacent to the Granite Mountain Wilderness area.
Natural Landmark
Granite Dells
Exposed granite bedrock and boulders north of Prescott, eroded into a rippled form and holding Watson and Willow lakes.
Natural Landmark
Granite Mountain
A 7,628-foot mountain in the Prescott National Forest, with a sheer 500-foot granite cliff on its south-west face used for rock climbing.
State Historic Park
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
A state park at the site where nineteen Granite Mountain Hotshots died fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire in 2013.Natural Landmark
Grasshopper Point
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.Museum
Greenlee Historical Museum
A small Morenci museum devoted to the mining history of Clifton and Morenci in Greenlee County, Arizona.
Historic Site
Guevavi Mission
A Jesuit mission near Tumacácori, Arizona, founded in 1691 by Eusebio Kino and Juan María de Salvatierra as a district headquarters.Natural Landmark
Guindani Trail (#398)
A steep Cochise County trail to San Pedro Valley views of the Huachuca and Dragoon Mountains, starting within Kartchner Caverns State Park.
Historic Site
Hackberry
An unincorporated community on the old Route 66, 28 miles north-east of Kingman, with 103 residents in 2020.
Landmark
Hale Centre Theatre
A Gilbert, Arizona theatre-in-the-round staging a season of plays, musicals, and children's theatre.
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.
Natural Landmark
Harquahala Mountains
The highest range in south-western Arizona, rising to 5,681 feet at Harquahala Peak, whose summit held a Smithsonian observatory from 1920.
Historic Site
Harshaw
A silver-mining ghost town in Santa Cruz County, whose Hermosa mine yielded some $365,455 in bullion over four months in 1880.Landmark
Havasu 95 Speedway
A 0.25-mile paved oval in Lake Havasu City, the only paved racing circuit in western Arizona, hosting weekly stock car events.
Waterfall
Havasu Falls
A waterfall on Havasu Creek in the Grand Canyon, lying within the tribal lands of the Havasupai people.
Natural Landmark
Havasupai Trail
The main trail to Supai and Havasu Falls; the alternative routes are unmaintained and require special permission to use.
Natural Landmark
Hawley Lake
A 300-acre lake at 8,200 feet on the White Mountain Apache Reservation, extended as a reservoir and fished for trout under tribal licence.
Museum
Heard Museum
A not-for-profit museum in Phoenix devoted to American Indian art, presenting Native stories from a first-person perspective.
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.Museum
Henry F Hauser Museum
A small Sierra Vista museum of historic artefacts and photographs from the surrounding Cochise County region.
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.Zoo or Aquarium
Heritage Park Zoological Sanctuary
A non-profit Prescott animal sanctuary, also known as the Prescott Animal Park Association, protecting native and exotic species.
Natural Landmark
Hermit Trail
A steep, marginally maintained trail in Grand Canyon National Park, descending from the South Rim to the Colorado River past fossilised reptile tracks.
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.
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.
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.Natural Landmark
Hidden Bridge Arch
Hidden Bridge Arch is a rock formation in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, south of the formations known as Big Hogan and Sun's Eye.Museum
Highlands Center for Natural History
A Prescott, Arizona nature centre with three miles of trails, offering lectures, workshops, and summer camps for children and families.Historic Site
Historic Downtown
Known as one of the best locations for antiques. Has many historical and cultural facilities and events.
National Monument
Hohokam Pima National Monument
A Hohokam village site near Sacaton, protected since 1972 and kept closed to the public by the Gila River Indian Community.
Landmark
HoHoKam Stadium
A 10,500-seat baseball park in Mesa named after the Hohokam people, and the spring training ground of the Athletics since 2015.
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.
State Park
Homolovi State Park
An Arizona state park north of Winslow preserving more than 300 Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites.
Historic Site
Honanki Heritage Site
A Sinagua cliff dwelling near Sedona with numerous pictographs, inhabited from about 1100 to 1300 CE and managed by the Coconino National Forest.
Landmark
Hoover Dam
A concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, built between 1931 and 1936.
Historic Site
Hopi House
Mary Colter's first Grand Canyon building, opened in 1905 as a market for Hopi crafts and modelled on a Hopi pueblo.
Natural Landmark
Horseshoe Bend
An incised meander of the Colorado River near Page, viewed from a clifftop overlook 1,000 feet above the water.
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.
Natural Landmark
Hualapai Mountain Park
A Mohave County park near Kingman with ten miles of trails, rental cabins, and group event areas, the largest holding 500 people.
Natural Landmark
Hualapai Mountains
A range east of Kingman rising to 8,417 feet, whose upper slopes carry Madrean sky island habitats above the Mojave Desert.
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.
Historic Site
Hunt's Tomb
A white pyramid in Papago Park holding George W. P. Hunt, the first governor of Arizona, and his family, built in 1931.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Indian Mesa
A cliff-sided mesa in Lake Pleasant Regional Park, topped by the ruins of a prehistoric Hohokam village.Natural Landmark
Iron Springs (Cochise County, Arizona)
A spring in the Whetstone Mountains where Wyatt Earp killed William "Curly Bill" Brocius in March 1882, later mapped as Mescal Springs.
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.
Natural Landmark
Isis Temple
A Coconino Sandstone prominence in the Grand Canyon, five miles north of Grand Canyon Village and only slightly below its elevation.
Botanical Garden
Japanese Friendship Garden
A 3.5-acre Japanese stroll garden in Phoenix, built jointly with the sister city of Himeji and named a Phoenix Point of Pride in 2004.
Natural Landmark
Jasper Forest
A Petrified Forest National Park overlook above badlands where erosion has exposed hundreds of petrified logs.
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.
Natural Landmark
John Ford Point
A Monument Valley overlook featured in several Western films, more developed than most of the park despite its rough dirt-road access.
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.Natural Landmark
John Wayne's Point
John Wayne's Point, a Monument Valley overlook named for the actor, lies near Lookout Point but faces east-southeast rather than its direction.
Natural Landmark
Kaibab National Forest
A 1.6-million-acre national forest bordering both rims of the Grand Canyon, divided into three ranger districts.
Natural Landmark
Kaibab Plateau
A high plateau almost entirely within Coconino County, also known as Buckskin Mountain, Buckskin Plateau and Kaibab Mountain.
Landmark
Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge
A 440-foot span carrying the South Kaibab Trail across the Colorado River, and the mule crossing to Phantom Ranch.
State Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park
A living limestone cave near Benson, found in 1974 and kept from the public while conservation measures were designed.Natural Landmark
Kelly Point Overlook
Kelly Point Overlook, in Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, Arizona.
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.
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.
Historic Site
Kinishba Ruins
A 600-room Mogollon great house on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, a National Historic Landmark administered by the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
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.Historic Site
Klagetoh Chapter House
A 1963 Navajo Nation chapter house in Klagetoh tied to leader Annie Dodge Wauneka, designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021.
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.
Historic Site
Kolb Studio
A historic building on the Grand Canyon's South Rim, run from 1904 to 1976 as the photographic studio of Ellsworth and Emery Kolb.
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.
State Park
Lake Havasu State Park
A recreation area on the Colorado River reservoir at Lake Havasu City, with camping, boating and fishing.
Natural Landmark
Lake Mohave
A Colorado River reservoir between Hoover and Davis dams on the Nevada–Arizona border, part of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Natural Landmark
Lake Pleasant Regional Park
A large recreation area on the Maricopa–Yavapai county line north-west of Phoenix, operated by Maricopa County Parks and Recreation.
Natural Landmark
Lake Powell
A Colorado River reservoir on the Utah–Arizona line, created by Glen Canyon Dam and visited by about two million people a year.
Observatory
Large Binocular Telescope
An optical telescope on Mount Graham whose paired 8.4-metre mirrors give it the light-gathering power of an 11.8-metre instrument.
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.
Historic Site
Lavender Pit
A former Bisbee copper mine that produced about 600,000 tons of copper from 1950 to 1974, viewable from a roadside platform.
Natural Landmark
Lees Ferry
A Colorado River crossing in Coconino County, and the gauging point dividing the river's Upper and Lower Basins since the 1920s.Landmark
Legacy Park
A 275-acre sports and entertainment complex in Mesa, opened in 2022 on a former General Motors testing ground.
Historic Site
Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site
A National Historic Landmark on the San Pedro River where Paleo-Indians killed mammoths 11,000 to 12,000 years before the present.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.
Natural Landmark
Little Painted Desert County Park
A Navajo County park near Winslow with Painted Desert views considered best in early morning and late afternoon light.
Historic Site
Lochiel
A former border crossing and largely abandoned settlement in the San Rafael Valley, about 25 miles east of Nogales.
Landmark
Locomotive Park
Locomotive Park, in Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona, is a park that is home to the preserved steam locomotive No. 3759.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.
Historic Site
London Bridge
The 1830s Thames bridge bought from the City of London in 1968 and rebuilt at Lake Havasu City in 1971.
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.Landmark
LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana
A Scottsdale copy of Robert Indiana's LOVE sculpture, a design first made for a Christmas card and replicated in cities from Philadelphia to Taipei.
Observatory
Lowell Discovery Telescope
A 4.3-metre telescope operated by Lowell Observatory near Happy Jack, the fifth largest optical telescope in the continental United States.
Observatory
Lowell Observatory
The Flagstaff observatory where Pluto was discovered in 1930, founded in 1894 and still open for public observing.
Canyon
Lower Antelope Canyon
A Page, Arizona slot canyon with a more open top than Upper Antelope Canyon, accessible only by guided tour.
Landmark
Luhrs Tower
An Art Deco office skyscraper in downtown Phoenix, at the south-eastern corner of First Avenue and Jefferson Street.
State Park
Lyman Lake State Park
An Arizona state park on the largest lake in the region, 17 miles north of Springerville on the Little Colorado.
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.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Mares Bluff
A steep Greenlee County trail to a view of Clifton, built as a veterans memorial and lined with plaques.
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.
Museum
Martin Auto Museum
A privately owned non-profit automobile museum in Glendale, preserving collectible cars and running guided tours for school and club groups.
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.
Natural Landmark
Mather Point
A South Rim viewpoint at 7,119 feet, named after Stephen Tyng Mather and looking north across Granite Gorge up Bright Angel Canyon.
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.
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.
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.
State Historic Park
McFarland State Historic Park
A preserved territorial courthouse in Florence, commemorating Ernest McFarland, who bought and donated it.Natural Landmark
McHood Park / Clear Creek Reservoir
A Winslow-area reservoir park, in Navajo County, Arizona, with a petroglyph-lined canyon that is reachable only by canoe.
Landmark
McKale Center
The University of Arizona's athletic arena in Tucson, home of the Wildcats basketball team of the Big 12 Conference.
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.
Historic Site
McPhaul Suspension Bridge
A 1929 suspension bridge over the Gila River near Yuma, 1,184 feet long and replaced in 1968 when the river was rerouted.
Natural Landmark
Merrick Butte
A butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, south of the Mitten Buttes and named for the miner Jack Merrick.Landmark
Mesa Amphitheatre
An outdoor concert venue in central Mesa with a tiered lawn and a capacity of 4,950, opened in 1979.
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.
Museum
Mesa Arts Center
A performing and visual arts complex in downtown Mesa, completed in 2005 at a cost of $95 million and the largest in the state.
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'.
Natural Landmark
Meteor Crater
An impact crater 3,900 feet across in northern Arizona, and the first on Earth confirmed to have been formed by a meteorite.
Natural Landmark
Mica Mountain
An 8,668-foot peak east of Tucson, the highest point in the Rincon Mountains and in Saguaro National Park.
Natural Landmark
Miller Peak
A 9,470-foot summit in the Huachuca Mountains south of Sierra Vista, the southernmost land above 9,000 feet in the continental United States.Museum
Mine Museum
The Mine Museum, in Jerome, Yavapai County, Arizona, covers the town's mining history and has an onsite gift shop.
Natural Landmark
Mingus Mountain
A mountain in the Prescott National Forest between Cottonwood and Prescott, giving views over the Verde Valley.
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.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Mogollon Rim
A topographical feature running some 200 miles across northern Arizona, forming the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau.
Museum
Mohave Museum of History & Arts
A private, not-for-profit Kingman museum, founded in 1961, dedicated to the heritage and arts of north-western Arizona.
Natural Landmark
Monolith Garden Trail
A seven-mile multi-use trail near Kingman through volcanic rock formations, with little shade and no water available.
National Monument
Montezuma Castle National Monument
A five-storey Sinagua cliff dwelling at Camp Verde, built by 1125 AD and viewed from the trail below.
Natural Landmark
Montezuma Well
A limestone sinkhole near Lake Montezuma discharging 1.5 million gallons of spring water a day and holding five endemic species.
Natural Landmark
Monument Valley
A cluster of sandstone buttes on the Navajo Nation, the largest rising 1,000 feet above the valley floor.Landmark
Morelos Dam
The last dam on the Colorado River, built in 1950 to divert Mexico's treaty share of the water to the Mexicali Valley.Historic Site
Morenci Mine Overlook
Morenci Mine Overlook, near Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, is a vantage point over the town's mining operation.Historic Site
Morley Avenue
A historic Nogales shopping street of early-1900s buildings, with several stores still run by descendants of their founders.
Natural Landmark
Mormon Lake
A shallow intermittent lake in Pleasant Valley, Arizona's largest natural lake when full and a remnant marsh when it is not.
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.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Mount Graham
A 10,720-foot peak north-east of Tucson, the highest in the Pinaleño Mountains and the southernmost land above 10,000 feet in the country.
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.
Observatory
Mount Lemmon Observatory
A University of Arizona observatory on Mount Lemmon, 28 kilometres north-east of Tucson in the Coronado National Forest.
Landmark
Mount Lemmon Ski Valley
The southernmost ski area in the continental United States, on Mount Lemmon north of Tucson at 9,157 feet.Natural Landmark
Mount McDowell
A 2,832-foot mountain north of Mesa, commonly called Red Mountain, closed to visitors since the early 1980s after vandalism.
Natural Landmark
Mount Wrightson
A 9,456-foot peak in the Santa Rita Mountains within the Coronado National Forest, named for the miner William Wrightson.
Landmark
Mountain America Stadium
The Arizona State University football stadium in Tempe, opened in 1958 and named Sun Devil Stadium until 2023.
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.
Landmark
Mullett Arena
A 5,000-seat arena at Arizona State University, temporary home of the NHL's Arizona Coyotes from 2022 to 2024.
Natural Landmark
Mummy Mountain (Arizona)
A mountain in Paradise Valley, residential on its slopes and conservation land at its summit, with the Camelback Inn below since 1936.
Historic Site
Murray Springs Clovis Site
A Clovis hunting camp near the San Pedro River, with five excavated kill and butchery sites dating to about 11,000 BP.
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.Museum
Museum of Indigenous People (formerly Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture)
A Prescott museum of regional Native American history and culture, founded in 1935 out of a settler group that had staged imitation Hopi rituals.
Museum
Museum of Northern Arizona
A Flagstaff museum founded in 1928, holding Indigenous material and natural history collections from the Colorado Plateau.
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.
Historic Site
Mystery Castle
A house in the South Mountain foothills built in the 1930s from found materials, and open for tours since 1948.
Historic Site
National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona
A 225-acre United States national cemetery in Phoenix, holding more than 78,000 interments as of the end of 2016.
Landmark
Navajo Bridges
Twin steel arch bridges over Marble Canyon near Lees Ferry, the first dedicated in 1929 and the second opened in 1995.
Museum
Navajo Code Talkers exhibit
A Kayenta exhibit, in a building behind a Burger King, on how Navajo code talkers secured US military communications in the Second World War.
Museum
Navajo County Historical Society
Self-guided tours. Contact the Holbrook Visitor's Center (nextdoor) for a brochure.
Historic Site
Navajo Nation Council Chamber
The seat of government of the Navajo Nation at Window Rock, a red sandstone building declared a National Historic Landmark in 2004.
Zoo or Aquarium
Navajo Nation Zoological and Botanical Park
The only tribally owned zoological park in the United States, in Window Rock, with its exhibits labelled in the Navajo language.
National Monument
Navajo National Monument
A National Park System unit on the Shonto Plateau preserving three Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Newspaper Rock
A Petrified Forest National Park roadside overlook above a rock face etched with hundreds of petroglyphs.
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.
Natural Landmark
North Kaibab Trail
The Grand Canyon's North Rim trail, descending steeply to Roaring Springs and on to the Colorado River.Natural Landmark
North Mountain
A Phoenix park preserving a stretch of desert within the city limits, with picnic areas, hiking trails, and city views.
Natural Landmark
North Window Overlook
North Window Overlook, in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, looks onto the North Window rock formation and the desert beyond it.Museum
Northern Arizona University Art Museum
The Northern Arizona University Art Museum, in Flagstaff, Arizona, holds rotating exhibits of local and international art.Museum
Northlight Gallery
Northlight Gallery, in Tempe, Arizona, exhibits photographic work by emerging and internationally recognised artists.
Historic Site
O.K. Corral
Tombstone's O.K. Corral, a former horse corral and National Historic Landmark, stages a daily re-enactment of its namesake gunfight.
Canyon
Oak Creek Canyon
A river gorge between Flagstaff and Sedona, followed for 13 miles by State Route 89A after a descent of hairpin turns.
Natural Landmark
Oak Flat
A mesa in the Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix, sacred to the San Carlos Apache and listed on the National Register.Landmark
Oak Grove
Oak Grove is a ghost town in Mohave County, Arizona, at an estimated elevation of 5,945 feet above sea level.
Historic Site
Oatman
A former gold-mining camp in the Black Mountains that grew past 3,500 people in a year and now numbers 102.
Historic Site
Ocean To Ocean Bridge
A 1915 through truss bridge at Yuma, the first highway crossing of the lower Colorado and the only Pennsylvania truss in Arizona.
Historic Site
Old Main
Old Main, in Tempe, Arizona, is the original building of the school it belongs to, dating from the school's founding.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.
Historic Site
Old Post Cemetery
Old Post Cemetery, in Sierra Vista, Arizona, holds the graves of Apache Wars cavalry, Buffalo Soldiers, and Apache scouts, some marked only 'Unknown'.
Museum
Old Trails Museum
Old Trails Museum, in Winslow, Navajo County, Arizona, is a small museum devoted to the history of the Winslow area.
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.Natural Landmark
Onyx Cave
A half-mile solutional cave in Permian limestone in the Santa Rita Mountains, designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974.
State Park
Oracle State Park
A 3,948-acre wildlife refuge and state park in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains near Oracle.
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.
Historic Site
Orpheum Theatre
A 1,364-seat theatre in downtown Phoenix, built in 1929 in the Spanish Baroque style for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit.
Zoo or Aquarium
Out of Africa Wildlife Park
A wildlife park and zoo in Camp Verde, opened in 2005, where exotic animals roam in habitats larger than a traditional zoo's.
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.
Natural Landmark
Painted Desert
A badlands region running from the Grand Canyon to Petrified Forest, known for the colour of its rock.
Historic Site
Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District
Petrified Forest National Park's 1961-65 administrative complex, designed by Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander, became a landmark in 2016.
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.
Landmark
Painted Rock Dam
An earthfill embankment dam west of Gila Bend, in Maricopa County, used primarily for flood control.
Historic Site
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
Hundreds of pre-Columbian petroglyphs near Theba, listed in 1977 and run by the Bureau of Land Management with a campground and trail.Natural Landmark
Pakoon Springs
Pakoon Springs, in Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, Mohave County, Arizona, is one of the two largest springs of the Pakoon Basin.
Historic Site
Palatki Heritage Site
A Sinagua cliff dwelling site near Sedona, with pictographs and petroglyphs dated to between 1100 and 1400 CE.
Natural Landmark
Papago Park
A municipal park of Phoenix and Tempe, designated a Phoenix Point of Pride and containing Hunt's Tomb.
Historic Site
Paradise
A small ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, settled in 1901 while the area was still the Arizona Territory.
Natural Landmark
Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
A 112,500-acre wilderness of broad plateaus, tall escarpments and deep canyons on the Colorado Plateau, designated in 1984.
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.
State Park
Patagonia Lake State Park
A 250-acre lake south of Patagonia, created by damming Sonoita Creek, used for fishing, boating and birding.
Natural Landmark
Patagonia Mountains
A mountain range 15 miles long in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, lying within the Coronado National Forest.
Natural Landmark
Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve
Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve, near Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, is a Nature Conservancy-managed wetland used for birdwatching.
Historic Site
Pearce
A ghost town and unincorporated community in the Sulphur Springs Valley of Cochise County, adjoining the settlement of Sunsites.
Natural Landmark
Peloncillo Mountains
A range in north-eastern Cochise County, part of the Madrean Sky Islands, lying east of the Willcox Playa and San Simon Valley.
Landmark
Peoria Sports Complex
A Peoria baseball complex of twelve practice fields and a 12,000-seat stadium, shared in spring by the Padres and the Mariners.
Natural Landmark
Peppersauce Cave
A limestone cave with about a mile of mapped passages in the Santa Catalina Mountains south of Oracle, visited by some 23,000 people a year.
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.
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.
National Park
Petrified Forest National Park
A national park of petrified wood and eroded badlands in north-eastern Arizona, crossed by historic Route 66.
Natural Landmark
Phallic Rock
A Precambrian granite formation at the eastern foot of Black Mountain in Carefree, shaped by spheroidal weathering.
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.
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.
Historic Site
Phoenix Arizona Temple
A temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints completed in Phoenix in 2014, the church's 144th and the fifth in Arizona.
Museum
Phoenix Art Museum
The largest visual art museum in the south-western United States, holding more than 18,000 works across 285,000 square feet in Phoenix.
Historic Site
Phoenix Indian School
A Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school in Phoenix that ran from 1891 to 1990, the only non-reservation BIA school in Arizona.
Landmark
Phoenix Municipal Stadium
An 8,775-seat baseball stadium in Phoenix, built in 1964 and the home ground of Arizona State University baseball since 2015.
Landmark
Phoenix Raceway
A one-mile dogleg oval in Avondale, open since 1964 and seating 42,000, which has held NASCAR, IndyCar and CART races.
Landmark
Phoenix Rising Soccer Stadium
The home of Phoenix Rising FC of the USL Championship, a soccer-specific stadium completed in April 2023.Museum
Phoenix Space Museum
Phoenix Space Museum, also known as the Earth & Space Expedition Center in Phoenix, Arizona, displays a Space Shuttle Atlantis model and a solar system model.
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.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Piestewa Peak
A 2,610-foot summit in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, named for Army Specialist Lori Ann Piestewa and climbed by a strenuous trail.
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.Museum
Pimeria Alta Historical Society and Museum
Pimeria Alta Historical Society and Museum, in Nogales, Arizona, occupies the 1914 former City Hall and displays artefacts on the region's history.
Historic Site
Pinal City
A ghost town in Pinal County, populated from the 1870s into the 1890s, of which only a few foundations remain.Museum
Pinal Geology & Mineral Museum
Pinal Geology & Mineral Museum, in Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona, displays minerals and fossilised dinosaur bones.
Landmark
Pinaleño Mountains
A Madrean sky island range near Safford with over 7,000 feet of relief, rising to Mount Graham at 10,720 feet.Museum
Pine-Strawberry Museum
Pine-Strawberry Museum, in Gila County, Arizona, displays prehistoric and pioneer artefacts, period antiques, and room displays.
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.
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.
Museum
Pioneer Museum
Pioneer Museum, in Flagstaff, Arizona, collects and exhibits artefacts and photographs on the history of Flagstaff and northern Arizona.
National Monument
Pipe Spring National Monument
A National Park Service monument in northern Arizona holding Native American, explorer and Mormon pioneer history.
Museum
Planes of Fame Air 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.
Historic Site
Point of Pines Sites
Archaeological sites on the San Carlos Apache Reservation where a 1946-60 field school found Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon and Hohokam evidence.
Museum
Poozeum
A museum in Williams devoted to coprolites, holding 8,000 specimens including the largest yet found from a carnivore.
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.
Natural Landmark
Prescott National Forest
A 1.25 million-acre national forest around Prescott, divided into the Chino Valley, Bradshaw and Verde ranger districts.Historic Site
Presidio Santa Cruz de Terranate
Presidio Santa Cruz de Terranate, near Tombstone, Arizona, holds the most intact US remains of a Spanish colonial fortress, built in 1776 and abandoned by 1780.
Historic Site
Puerco Pueblo
Puerco Pueblo, in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, is an 800-year-old pueblo that once held 100 rooms and up to 1,200 people.
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.Museum
Quartzsite Historical Society
Quartzsite Historical Society, in La Paz County, Arizona, occupies the site of an 1866 adobe stage station on the California–Arizona line.
Landmark
Queen Creek Olive Mill
Queen Creek Olive Mill, a family-owned olive oil producer in Maricopa County, Arizona, has been featured on the Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate.
Museum
Rainbow Forest Museum
Rainbow Forest Museum, in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, exhibits petrified wood, fossils, and the park orientation film Timeless Impressions.Natural Landmark
Rainbow Lake
A 116-acre man-made lake near Pinetop-Lakeside, created in 1903 when settlers dammed Walnut Creek for irrigation.
Canyon
Ramsey Canyon Preserve
Ramsey Canyon Preserve, near Sierra Vista, Arizona, has recorded more than 170 bird species, including 14 hummingbird species, along its hiking trails.
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.Landmark
Red Heritage Indigenous Entertainment Hall
Red Heritage Indigenous Entertainment Hall, in Page, Arizona, is a Native American dinner theatre featuring powwow dancing and live drum music.
State Park
Red Rock State Park
286 acres of red sandstone canyon south-west of Sedona, kept as a day-use park for the habitat along Oak Creek.
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.Natural Landmark
Reservoir Hill Overlook
Reservoir Hill Overlook, in Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, gives views over the fort and the neighbouring Whetstone Mountains.
Museum
Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame
A Willcox museum honouring singing cowboy and Disney narrator Rex Allen (1920-1999), with an adjoining local cowboy hall of fame.
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.
Museum
Rim Country Museum and Zane Grey Cabin
Rim Country Museum and Zane Grey Cabin, in Payson, Arizona, covers the history of northern Gila County and the Mogollon Rim.
Natural Landmark
Rim Trail
A paved 13-mile trail along the Grand Canyon's South Rim, from the South Kaibab Trailhead west to Hermit's Rest.
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.
State Historic Park
Riordan Mansion State Historic Park
An Arizona state park in Flagstaff preserving the duplex mansion of the lumber barons Timothy and Michael Riordan.
Natural Landmark
Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch
Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, in Gilbert, Arizona, has ponds visited by several hundred bird species yearly, plus an observatory and fishing lake.Landmark
Riverfront Park
Riverfront Park, Cottonwood's largest municipal park in Yavapai County, Arizona, has a dog park, disc golf course, and riverside walking trail.Historic Site
Rock Art Ranch House and Museum
Rock Art Ranch House and Museum, near Winslow, Arizona, preserves more than 3,000 petroglyphs spanning 6,000 years on a working cattle ranch.
Natural Landmark
Roden Crater
An extinct volcanic cinder cone with an interior crater, standing about 50 miles north-east of Flagstaff in northern Arizona.
Landmark
Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch
Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch, near Picacho, Arizona, lets visitors feed ostriches and other animals and offers monster truck tours of the ranch.
Natural Landmark
Rooster Rock Spire
A 5,985-foot spire in a remote corner of Monument Valley that lies beyond the reach of all-day valley tours.
State Park
Roper Lake State Park
An Arizona state park around a 32-acre lake five miles south of Safford, below the Pinaleño Mountains.Botanical Garden
Rose Garden at Mesa Community College
Rose Garden at Mesa Community College, in Mesa, Arizona, holds 4,600 rose bushes of more than 450 varieties, with peak bloom in April.Museum
Rose Tree Museum
Rose Tree Museum, in Tombstone, Arizona, is said to house the world's largest rose tree alongside its historical exhibits.
Museum
Rosson House
An 1890s Victorian house museum in Heritage Square, Downtown Phoenix, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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.Museum
Route 66 Museum
Route 66 Museum, in Kingman, Arizona, traces the history of Route 66 and displays about 16 historic electric vehicles, including one owned by Willie Nelson.
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.
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.
Historic Site
S'edav Va'aki
A pre-Columbian platform mound and canal system in Phoenix, formerly called Pueblo Grande and now S'edav Va'aki.
Canyon
Sabino Canyon
A canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, with waterfalls along Sabino Creek and trails through the desert.Historic Site
Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
Ganado Mission's nursing school, the first accredited programme for Native American women in the US, became a landmark in 2009.
Natural Landmark
Saguaro Lake
The fourth reservoir on the Salt River, formed by Stewart Mountain Dam and managed within the Tonto National Forest.
National Park
Saguaro National Park
Two districts of Sonoran Desert either side of Tucson, preserving the giant saguaro cactus the park is named for.
Historic Site
Sahuaro Ranch Park
An 1886 Glendale ranch of restored fruit-orchard and vineyard buildings, now a city park listed on the National Register since 1980.
Canyon
Salt River Canyon Wilderness
A wilderness area of 32,115 acres in the Tonto National Forest, taking in a deep river canyon with 27 sets of rapids.
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.Landmark
Salt River Project Canals
Salt River Project Canals, in Scottsdale, Arizona, has public banks used for running, biking, and other recreational activities.Museum
Salt River Project History Center
Salt River Project History Center, in Tempe, Arizona, exhibits the construction of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam and Arizona's water-use history.
Natural Landmark
Salt River Valley
The valley on the Salt River that holds the Phoenix metropolitan area, better known since the 1930s as the Valley of the Sun.
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.
Natural Landmark
San Francisco Peaks
A volcanic range north of Flagstaff, crowned by Humphreys Peak at 12,633 feet, the highest point in Arizona.
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.
Natural Landmark
San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
A 57,000-acre BLM conservation area in Cochise County protecting 40 miles of the upper San Pedro River, designated by Congress in 1988.
Natural Landmark
San Pedro Valley
A valley running 140 miles north from Sonora into Arizona, carrying the San Pedro River to Winkelman.
Museum
San Pedro Valley Arts & Historical Society
San Pedro Valley Arts & Historical Society, in Benson, Arizona, displays local and regional history and sells local artisans' work in its gift shop.
Historic Site
San Rafael Ranch
A historic cattle ranch in the San Rafael Valley, a mile and a half north of Lochiel and close to the border with Sonora.Historic Site
Sanchez CCC Camp
Sanchez CCC Camp, near Safford, Arizona, preserves several buildings of a Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps camp, managed by the BLM.Natural Landmark
Sand Springs
Sand Springs is a natural spring in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, situated close to a nearby sand dune within the valley.Museum
Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens
Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens, in Yuma, Arizona, is an 1870s adobe house with exhibits on the lower Colorado River region since the 1540s.
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.
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.
Historic Site
Santa Cruz County Courthouse
Santa Cruz County Courthouse, an 1904 landmark in Nogales, Arizona, now houses Cochise College's Nogales branch and the Arizona Ranger Museum.
Natural Landmark
Santa Rita Mountains
A Madrean sky island range south-east of Tucson, rising to 9,453 feet at Mount Wrightson and containing Madera Canyon.
Historic Site
Sasco
A ghost town in Pinal County west of Red Rock, built as a company town around a large smelter serving several mines.
Historic Site
Sce:dagĭ Mu:val Va’aki
A Hohokam platform mound in Mesa occupied between AD 1100 and 1400, one of only two left in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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.
Natural Landmark
Schnebly Hill Formation
A dark red sandstone unit 800 to 1,000 feet thick near Sedona, lying between the Coconino Sandstone and the Hermit Formation.
Landmark
Schnepf Farms
Schnepf Farms, in Queen Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona, is a family-operated farm that holds frequent festivals.
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.
Landmark
Scottsdale Stadium
A 12,000-capacity baseball stadium in Scottsdale, the spring training ground of the San Francisco Giants since 1984.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.
Natural Landmark
Sears Point
Sears Point, near Dateland, Arizona, has hundreds of petroglyphs on basalt outcrops above the Gila River, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.Museum
Sedona Heritage Museum
Sedona Heritage Museum, in Sedona, Arizona, is dedicated to the history of the town's early white settlement.
Landmark
Sedona McDonald's
The only McDonald's in the world with turquoise arches rather than yellow ones. Sedona's building rules require development to sit quietly against the red rock, so when the restaurant opened in April 1993 the city refused the standard yellow and the franchise built it in turquoise instead. Tour buses stop here and people climb the arches to be photographed under them.
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.
Natural Landmark
Seven Sacred Pools
Sandstone tinajas on the Soldier Pass Trail near Sedona, fed by a seasonal stream and named by local Jeep tour guides.
Museum
Sharlot Hall Museum
An open-air museum in Prescott, opened in 1928 in the former Territorial Governor's Mansion by its founder, Sharlot M. Hall.
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.
Historic Site
Sierra Bonita Ranch
A Sulphur Springs Valley cattle ranch founded by Henry C. Hooker in 1872, the first permanent American cattle ranch in Arizona.
Natural Landmark
Sierra Estrella
A mountain range south-west of Phoenix, largely within the Gila River Indian Reservation, with 14,400 acres held as wilderness.
Natural Landmark
Sierra Prieta
A mountain range 14 miles long west of Prescott, with the 6,514-foot volcanic plug of Thumb Butte on the city's western edge.Landmark
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Phoenix
A 35-acre water park in Adobe Dam Regional Park, opened as WaterWorld Safari in 1993 and rebranded under Six Flags in 2019.
Natural Landmark
Skeleton Cave
A cave in the Salt River Canyon Wilderness, site of the 1872 massacre of Yavapai people and listed on the National Register in 1991.
Natural Landmark
Skyline Regional Park
An 8,700-acre Sonoran Desert preserve on the White Tank Mountains' southern edge, managed by Buckeye under a BLM lease.Natural Landmark
Sleeping Dragon Butte
Sleeping Dragon Butte, in Monument Valley, Arizona, resembles a dragon from the north and lies near traditional Navajo hogans and Flying Eagle.
State Park
Slide Rock State Park
A natural water slide formed by the bed of Oak Creek north of Sedona, set on a 43-acre working apple farm.
Landmark
Sloan Park
The Chicago Cubs' spring training park in Mesa, opened in 2014 and, at 15,000 seats, the largest in Major League Baseball.Canyon
Snap Point and Canyon
Snap Point and Canyon, in Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, Arizona.
Natural Landmark
Snoopy rock
Snoopy Rock, near Sedona, Arizona, is a rock formation that from one side resembles the Snoopy dog character lying on his back.Landmark
Snoopy Rocket of Wikieup
Snoopy Rocket of Wikieup, in Mohave County, Arizona, is a roadside attraction with figures of Snoopy and Woodstock atop a rocket.
State Natural Area
Sonoita Creek State Natural Area
Nearly 10,000 acres of riparian and upland habitat below Patagonia Lake, an Important Bird Area with 106 recorded bird species.
Natural Landmark
Sonoran Desert
A subtropical hot desert of 260,000 square kilometres, home to the saguaro and the organ pipe cactus.
National Monument
Sonoran Desert National Monument
A 496,400-acre monument south of Goodyear and east of Gila Bend, proclaimed in 2001 and managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Museum
Sosa-Carrillo-Frémont House Museum
A 1870s Tucson adobe house tied to Territorial Governor John Charles Fremont, now an Arizona Historical Society museum.
Natural Landmark
South Kaibab Trail
A Grand Canyon trail from Yaki Point following a ridgeline to the Colorado River, steeper and less shaded than the Bright Angel.
Natural Landmark
South Mountain Park
A 16,000-acre municipal park in Phoenix, the largest in the United States, with 51 miles of trails and a road up to Dobbins Lookout.
Natural Landmark
South Mountains
A mountain range in south Phoenix, most of it managed by the city as South Mountain Park, with part in the Gila River Indian Community.
Museum
Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
A free Tucson railroad museum in the former Southern Pacific Depot's records vault, centred on steam locomotive 1673.
Landmark
Southwest Research Station
Southwest Research Station, in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, is run by the American Museum of Natural History and offers birdwatching tours.
Natural Landmark
Spearhead Mesa
Spearhead Mesa, in Monument Valley, Arizona, rises to 5,998 feet and marks the north-eastern boundary of the Eastern Monument Valley formations.
Natural Landmark
Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area
Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area, near Cave Creek, Arizona, has Sonoran Desert trails alongside Hohokam ruins and petroglyphs.
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.
Historic Site
St. Mary's Basilica
The oldest Catholic parish church in the greater Phoenix area, built between 1902 and 1914 and raised to minor basilica in 1985.
Landmark
Standin' on the Corner Park
A park in Winslow, opened in 1999, commemorating the Eagles song "Take It Easy" with a mural, a flatbed Ford and a bronze statue.
Landmark
State Farm Stadium
The retractable-roof home of the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, host of three Super Bowls and the Fiesta Bowl.
Museum
Strawberry Schoolhouse
An 1885 log schoolhouse in Strawberry, often called Arizona's oldest, though the 1879 Arivaca Schoolhouse predates it.
Observatory
Submillimeter Telescope
A 10-metre submillimetre radio telescope on Mount Graham, completed in 1993 and part of the Mount Graham International Observatory.
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.Natural Landmark
Sun's Eye
Sun's Eye, in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, is a rock arch visible from a rock formation beneath it.
Landmark
Sunrise Park Resort
The largest ski resort in Arizona, its runs spread over 1,200 acres and three peaks in the White Mountains near Greer.
National Monument
Sunset Crater
The youngest volcano in the San Francisco volcanic field, erupted around 1085 CE north of Flagstaff.
Natural Landmark
Superstition Mountain
A landmark mountain east of Apache Junction anchoring the Superstition Mountains and central to the Lost Dutchman legend.
Museum
Superstition Mountain Museum
Superstition Mountain Museum, in Apache Junction, Arizona, spans 12.5 acres and includes the relocated Elvis Memorial Chapel and Audie Murphy Barn.
Natural Landmark
Superstition Mountains
A range east of the Phoenix metropolitan area anchored by Superstition Mountain, and a well-used recreation area.
Natural Landmark
Superstition Wilderness
Superstition Wilderness, in Pinal County, Arizona, is a Tonto National Forest area covering the Superstition Mountains, with trails and dispersed camping.
Landmark
Surprise Stadium
A 10,714-seat ballpark opened in 2002, the shared spring training ground of the Kansas City Royals and the Texas Rangers.
Historic Site
Swansea
A ghost town in La Paz County, settled around 1909 to mine, process and smelt copper ore from the surrounding claims.
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.
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.
Historic Site
Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and studio in Scottsdale, built from 1938 and now a National Historic Landmark and World Heritage Site.
Landmark
Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
A Phoenix amphitheatre opened in 1990 with a capacity above 20,000, since renamed the Ak-Chin Pavilion and Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre.Natural Landmark
Tanque Verde Ridge Trail
Tanque Verde Ridge Trail, in Saguaro National Park, Arizona.Historic Site
Tassi Ranch
Tassi Ranch, in Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, Mohave County, Arizona, is the ruin of a historic ranch.Natural Landmark
Tawa Point
Tawa Point, in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, is a Painted Desert overlook and the starting point of the Rim Trail.Natural Landmark
Telegraph Pass Trail
Telegraph Pass Trail, in Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, is a 4.3-mile hiking route with views from the top of the pass.
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.
Landmark
Tempe Center for the Arts
A publicly owned Tempe arts centre, opened in 2007, with a 600-seat theatre, a studio theatre and a gallery overlooking Tempe Town Lake.
Landmark
Tempe Diablo Stadium
A baseball park in Tempe, the spring training ground of the Los Angeles Angels since 1993 and the night-game home of the Arizona League Angels.Museum
Tempe History Museum
Tempe History Museum, in Tempe, Arizona, covers the city's history from the prehistoric Hohokam period to the present through hands-on exhibits.
Natural Landmark
Tempe Town Lake
An artificial reservoir on the Salt River in Tempe, fed largely by Colorado River water through the Central Arizona Project.
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.Natural Landmark
The Crack at Wet Beaver Creek
A perennial pool on Wet Beaver Creek where the Bell Trail crosses it, three miles into the Wet Beaver Wilderness.Natural Landmark
The Hub
The Hub, in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, is a two-step butte with a narrower butte set atop a larger one.
Landmark
The Loop
A Pima County network of shared-use paths around Tucson, planned to comprise 131 miles of paved trail once complete.
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.Museum
The Phippen Museum of Western Art
The Phippen Museum of Western Art, in Prescott, Arizona, is named after artist George Phippen and hosts exhibits of western art.
Museum
The Thing?
A roadside attraction on Interstate 10 displaying a supposed mummified mother and child, advertised for miles by billboards.
Natural Landmark
The Wave
A banded sandstone formation in the Coyote Buttes, reached only by permit lottery and a difficult hike.
Natural Landmark
Theodore Roosevelt Lake
The largest reservoir lying entirely within Arizona, formed on the Salt River by a dam Theodore Roosevelt dedicated in 1911.
Natural Landmark
Three Sisters Spires
Three Sisters Spires, in Monument Valley, Arizona, is a group of three spires best seen from John Ford Point, one topped by a resting rock.Natural Landmark
Thumb Spire
Thumb Spire, in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, stands next to Camel Butte with several large rocks beside it.
Historic Site
Tip Top
Tip Top is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, settled in 1876 in what was then Arizona Territory.
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.
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.
State Historic Park
Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park
The 1882 Cochise County courthouse in Tombstone, now a museum and the first Arizona state park to open.
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.
Natural Landmark
Tonto Basin
The drainage basin of Tonto Creek in central Arizona, running south-west of the Mogollon Rim to Theodore Roosevelt Lake.
Natural Landmark
Tonto National Forest
At 2,873,200 acres the largest national forest in Arizona, running from Sonoran Desert up to the pine forests of the Mogollon Rim.
National Monument
Tonto National Monument
A national monument in the Superstition Mountains of Gila County, at the edge of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion.
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.
Natural Landmark
Tonto Trail
A hiking trail on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Grand Canyon National Park, northern Arizona.
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.
Natural Landmark
Tortolita Mountains
A mountain range north-west of Tucson rising to 4,696 feet, largely protected within Tortolita Mountain Park since 1986.
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.
Historic Site
Tovrea Castle
An Italianate landmark built in Phoenix between 1929 and 1931 as the centrepiece of a resort, set in grounds holding over 5,000 cacti.
Museum
Tubac Center for the Arts
Tubac Center for the Arts, in Tubac, Arizona, is run by a local artists' cooperative that organises art exhibits and workshops.
State Historic Park
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park
The first park in the Arizona state system, preserving the ruins of the Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac.
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.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Tucson Mountains
A range immediately west of Tucson, one of four surrounding the Tucson Basin, with Wasson Peak as its high point.
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.
Landmark
Tucson Music Hall
Tucson Music Hall, in Tucson, Arizona, is the home of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and the Arizona Opera.Landmark
Tucson Speedway
A 0.375-mile paved oval racetrack at the Pima County Fairgrounds, one of only three paved ovals in Arizona.
National Historic Site
Tumacácori National Historical Park
A park of three units in the Santa Cruz valley protecting the ruins of three Spanish mission communities.
Natural Landmark
Tumamoc Hill
An 860-acre ecological reserve and National Historic Landmark west of downtown Tucson, established by the Carnegie Institution in 1903.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.
National Monument
Tuzigoot National Monument
A 110-room hilltop pueblo of stone masonry, built along a limestone ridge above the Verde River floodplain.
Historic Site
Twin Arrows
A ghost town on U.S. Route 66 in Coconino County, between the city of Flagstaff and the town of Winslow.Natural Landmark
Twin Point Overlook
Twin Point Overlook, on the Grand Canyon–Parashant/Grand Canyon National Park border in Mohave County, Arizona, overlooks the Grand Canyon.Historic Site
Tyson Wash grinding holes and petroglyphs
Tyson Wash grinding holes and petroglyphs, near Quartzsite, Arizona, preserves pre-Columbian petroglyphs on both sides of the wash.
Natural Landmark
Uinkaret volcanic field
A field of monogenetic volcanoes on the Grand Canyon's north rim, whose lava flows repeatedly dammed the Colorado River.
Observatory
United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station
The national dark-sky observing facility of the United States Naval Observatory, near Flagstaff, and joint manager of the Celestial Reference Frame.
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.
Historic Site
V-Bar-V Heritage Site
The largest known petroglyph site in the Verde Valley, with 1,032 petroglyphs in 13 panels, held by the Coconino National Forest.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.
Historic Site
Ventana Cave
A southern Arizona archaeological site excavated from 1941, whose Pleistocene-age finds were redated and reinterpreted by later researchers.
Natural Landmark
Verde Hot Springs
A group of thermal mineral springs on the western bank of the Verde River near Camp Verde, beside the ruins of a former resort.
State Natural Area
Verde River Greenway State Natural Area
Almost 1,000 acres of riparian habitat along the Verde River at Cottonwood, run as a unit of Dead Horse Ranch State Park.
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.Museum
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Camp Verde's archaeology museum, founded in 2010, covers Sinagua culture and hosts an annual archaeology fair and film festival.
Observatory
VERITAS
A ground-based gamma-ray observatory of four 12-metre reflectors at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, completed in 2007.
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.
National Monument
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
A 293,689-acre monument south of the Utah line protecting the Paria Plateau, Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon and the Wave.Natural Landmark
Vermilion Cliffs Trail
Vermilion Cliffs Trail, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
Vishnu Temple
A summit within the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, standing at an elevation of 7,533 feet.
Historic Site
Vulture City
Vulture City is a ghost town in Maricopa County, Arizona, standing at the site of the defunct Vulture Mine.
Landmark
Walkup Skydome
An 11,230-seat indoor stadium at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, home to the NAU Lumberjacks.
National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Sinagua cliff dwellings in the ledges of a canyon near Flagstaff, reached by a trail that drops 185 feet.
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.
Landmark
Warren Ballpark
A 1909 mining-company ballpark in Bisbee, where 1,300 miners seized in the Bisbee Deportation were held in 1917.
Natural Landmark
Watson Lake
A reservoir among the Granite Dells at Prescott, dammed in the early 1900s and bought by the city in 1997 as recreational land.
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.
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.
Natural Landmark
West and East Mitten Buttes
Two buttes in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, rising above 6,100 feet and named for their resemblance to a pair of mittens.
Canyon
West Fork of Oak Creek
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.
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.
Landmark
Westgate Entertainment District
Westgate Entertainment District, in Glendale, Arizona, is billed as the 'Times Square of the desert' and hosts the Cardinals and Coyotes.
Natural Landmark
Whetstone Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona named in 1859 for its novaculite, a fine-grained rock used to sharpen tools.
Historic Site
White Cliffs Wagon Trail Park
White Cliffs Wagon Trail Park, in Kingman, Arizona, preserves an 1800s mining wagon route with wheel tracks cut into bedrock, now used by hikers.
Natural Landmark
White Mountains
A mountainous region of eastern Arizona rising to Mount Baldy at 11,400 feet, much of it within the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.
Natural Landmark
White Pocket
White Pocket, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, is a sandstone formation whose thin grey cover layer resembles an iced marble cake.
Natural Landmark
White Tank Mountain Regional Park
A park of 29,271 acres in west-central Maricopa County, the largest regional park in the county, established in the 1960s.
Natural Landmark
White Tank Mountains
A rugged range on the western edge of the Phoenix area, rising to Barry Goldwater Peak at 4,083 feet and named for its granite tanks.
Natural Landmark
Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area
Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area, near Douglas, Arizona, hosts about 20,000 wintering sandhill cranes each year, most visible from December to February.
Landmark
Wigwam Motel
One of three surviving Wigwam Villages motels, with tipi-shaped rooms on Route 66 in Holbrook, listed on the National Register in 2002.
Landmark
Wild West Junction
Wild West Junction, in Williams, Arizona, is a wild-west-themed village with a museum, restaurants, hotels, shops, and entertainment.
Zoo or Aquarium
Wildlife World Zoo
A 215-acre zoo and aquarium at Litchfield Park near Phoenix, specialising in African and South American animals.
Historic Site
Willcox Pioneer Cemetery
Willcox Pioneer Cemetery, in Willcox, Arizona, is an abandoned pioneer cemetery and the burial site of Warren Baxter Earp, youngest of the Earp brothers.
Natural Landmark
Willcox Playa
A 40-square-mile dry lake beside Willcox, remnant of Pleistocene Lake Cochise and a National Natural Landmark since 1966.
Historic Site
Willcox Southern Pacific Railroad Depot
Willcox Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, built in 1881, is the only surviving southern transcontinental railroad depot and now houses Willcox City Hall.
Landmark
Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery
A US Fish and Wildlife Service hatchery on the Colorado River in Mohave County, twelve miles south of Hoover Dam.
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.
Historic Site
Window Rock Tribal Park and Veteran's Memorial
Window Rock Tribal Park and Veteran's Memorial, in Window Rock, Arizona, features the namesake sandstone arch and a memorial to Navajo US military veterans.Historic Site
Winona Site
A Coconino County site where 1940s excavations found Hohokam pit houses, though later researchers link finds to the Sinagua instead.
Natural Landmark
Woods Canyon Lake
A 55-acre reservoir on the Mogollon Rim east of Payson, the most developed of the Rim Lakes and stocked with trout.
Natural Landmark
Wotans Throne
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.
Historic Site
Wrigley Mansion
A house built in Phoenix between 1929 and 1931 by the chewing gum manufacturer William Wrigley Jr, on a knoll near the Arizona Biltmore.
National Monument
Wupatki National Monument
Red sandstone pueblos built by ancestral Puebloan farmers near Flagstaff, including a hundred-room great house.
Natural Landmark
Yei Bi Chei Point
Yei Bi Chei Point, in Monument Valley, Arizona, overlooks the Sand Springs region and, ringed by rock formations, looks upward rather than down.Natural Landmark
Yei Bi Chei Spires
Yei Bi Chei Spires, in Monument Valley, Arizona, form a crescent beside Totem Pole Spire and, from the south, resemble dancers of their Navajo namesake.
Historic Site
Yuma Crossing
A crossing of the Colorado River between Arizona and California, used in the Spanish colonial period and after.
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.
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.Museum
Zelma Basha Salmeri Gallery of Western American and Native American Art
Zelma Basha Salmeri Gallery of Western American and Native American Art, in Chandler, Arizona, is a free gallery of more than 3,000 contemporary artworks.