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Looking for the Best Things to Do in Tubac AZ? Tubac has a legitimate claim to being the most historically significant small community in Arizona. Established in 1752 as a Spanish colonial presidio, a military garrison protecting the missions and settlers of the Pimería Alta, Tubac predates Tucson by more than 20 years and stands as Arizona's first European...
Patagonia sits at 4,000 feet in the Santa Cruz Valley of southern Arizona, a town of 900 people surrounded by some of the most ecologically and scenically significant landscape in the American Southwest. It has a Nature Conservancy preserve that serious birders from around the world visit specifically.
It has wine tasting rooms within walking distance of its single...
The Copper Queen Hotel Bisbee AZ opened in 1902 as the finest hotel between El Paso and Tucson. Phelps Dodge Corporation built it to house visiting mining executives, territorial officials, and the occasional celebrity passing through what was then one of the most prosperous cities in the American Southwest. John Wayne allegedly drank at the bar.
Curious about how...
Phoenix is surrounded by some of the most interesting small towns in the American West, and most Phoenix residents have never visited half of them. Within two hours in any direction from the I-10 / I-17 interchange, you can reach a Bavarian-themed arts town on a copper mining hillside, a Route 66 ghost-town where wild burros stop traffic, a...
Most people don't expect Arizona to produce serious wine. The state's reputation runs to cactus and heat and the kind of landscape that seems fundamentally incompatible with viticulture. Which makes the Sonoita AVA (American Viticultural Area), a 5,000-foot-elevation wine region in the rolling grasslands of Santa Cruz County , one of the more pleasant surprises in American wine.
The altitude...