Tucson Has a Secret 90 Minutes Down the Road
Most visitors to Tucson spend their time at Saguaro National Park, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and Mount Lemmon. All excellent choices.
But 90 minutes south, tucked inside a canyon in the Mule Mountains, sits one of the most fascinating small towns in the entire American Southwest.
The Day Trip to Bisbee AZ from...
The View That Stops Every First-Time Visitor Cold
You are driving into Bisbee on Highway 80.
The canyon walls are narrowing. Victorian buildings are appearing on the hillsides to your left. You are already thinking about the mine tour, the restaurant you read about, the ghost tour you booked for tonight.
Then you pull over at the overlook and look right.
The ground...
Bisbee Is More Than a Town, It Is a Trail head
Most people come to Bisbee for the mine tour. The ghost tour. The galleries and restaurants.
They do not come expecting a serious outdoor destination.
That is a mistake worth correcting.
Bisbee sits at 5,300 feet elevation in the heart of the Mule Mountains, a rugged, biologically diverse range in the Sky...
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...
What are the best things to do in Winthrop WA? It's the first question most travelers ask when planning a trip to this charming Western-style town in Washington's Methow Valley.
Winthrop, Washington doesn't look like the outdoor recreation capital it actually is. The frontier-themed wooden boardwalk main street, false-front saloons, hitching posts, cowboy boots in the shop windows, reads...