Arizona

Grand Canyon State. Copper State. Apache State. Sunset State.

(Pictures and places in bold are places I have been to.)

Iconic Foods

      • Chimichanga
      • Sonoran hot dogs
      • Pozole
      • Tamales
      • Elote
      • Navajo Taco
      • Fry Bread
      • Hopi Piki Bread
      • Mesquite Flour Bread
      • Tepary Beans

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, including Lake Powell, is listed under Utah.

Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Hoover Dam are listed under Nevada.

Honorable mention:

      • Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area (shared with California)

10. Flagstaff (plus, nearby:)

      • Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
      • Walnut Canyon National Monument
      • Wupatki National Monument

9. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

8. Phoenix

      • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Tailesin West (part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site)
      • Superstition Mountains – Lost Dutchman State Park, Lost Dutchman Museum, and Weavers Needle
      • Downtown – Heritage Square, Orpheum Theatre Phoenix, and Wells Fargo Museum
      • Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
      • Tonto National Monument
      • Sonoran Desert National Monument (BLM)
      • Agua Fria National Monument (BLM)
      • Hohokam Pima National Monument (no access)

7. The Wave, in the Coyote Buttes at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, and nearby is the Pipe Spring National Monument

Cool Springs
Cool Springs

6. Arizona’s Old Route 66 – Old Route 66

      • Holbrook – Wigwam Motel and Joe & Aggies Diner
      • Joseph City – Jackrabbit Trading Post
      • Winslow – Standin’ on a Corner Park
      • Meteor City – Meteor City Trading Post and the Meteor Crater
      • Two Guns ghost town – Apache Death Caves
      • Twin Arrows – Twin Arrows
      • Winona – Winona Bridge
      • Flagstaff – Hotel Monte Vista
      • Williams – Rod’s Steakhouse and Twisters Soda Fountain plus Grand Canyon Railway
      • Seligman – Snow Cap Drive-In and Road Kill Cafe
      • Hackberry – Hackberry General Store
      • Kingman – Mr D’z Route 66 Diner, El Trovatore Motel, and Powerhouse Visitors Center
      • Cool Springs and Sitgreaves Pass
      • Oatman –  Oatman Hotel and burros

5. Sedona Red Rock Country

      • Montezuma Castle National Monument
      • Tuzigoot National Monument
      • Sedona (small town gem)
      • Slide Rock State Park
      • Red Rock State Park
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

4. Navajo Nation – Diné

      • Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park 
      • Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park
      • Canyon de Chelly National Monument
      • Navajo National Monument
      • Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
      • Four Corners Monument (which is shared with Utah, Colorado, New Mexico)
      • Shiprock
Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park

3. Petrified Forest National Park – World Heritage Tentative List

Saguaro cactus
Saguaro cactus

2. Saguaro National Park  (plus, nearby:)

        1. O.K. Corral
        2. Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park
        3. Bird Cage Theatre
        4. Boot Hill
        1. Mission San Xavier Del Bac
        2. El Presidio Historic District
        3. St Augustine Cathedral
        4. Tucson Mountain Park – Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Old Tucson Studios
        1. Bisbee 1000 The Great Stair Climb (3rd Saturday of October)
        2. Copper Queen Mine
        3. Erie Street
        4. Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum (Smithsonian Institution affiliate)
      • Tumacácori National Historical Park
      • Coronado National Memorial
      • Chiricahua National Monument
      • Fort Bowie National Historic Site
      • Ironwood Forest National Monument (BLM)
Grand Canyon National Park
Desert View, Grand Canyon National Park

1. Grand Canyon National Park – a World Heritage Site (plus, nearby:)

      • Havasu Falls – Havasupai Indian Reservation
      • Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (NPS-BLM)
      • Greater Grand Canyon Heritage area (which has an advocacy group proposing national monument or national park expansion protection – grandcanyontrust.org)