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...
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...
The Mine That Built a City, and Still Steals the Show
There are tourist attractions that feel like obligations. Then there are the ones that genuinely stop you in your tracks.
The Queen Mine Tour Bisbee AZ is firmly in the second category.
Somewhere beneath the copper-colored hills of southeastern Arizona, 1,500 feet of tunnel cuts into the earth and into history....
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...
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...
The Bavarian village of Leavenworth gets the most attention for its architecture, its Oktoberfest, and its Christmas lights. What gets discussed less, but what draws a significant portion of Leavenworth's visitor base, is the hiking. The Icicle Creek Canyon behind town is one of the finest trail corridors in Washington State, and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness accessible from that...