Jerome, Arizona is having an identity crisis, in the best possible way. It is simultaneously a ghost town (officially designated one of the largest in America), a thriving arts destination, a wine trail hub, a haunted history landmark, and a jaw-dropping piece of landscape architecture where 19th-century buildings cling to a steep mountainside above one of the most beautiful...
America has a small-town problem. Not the problem people usually talk about, economic decline, population loss, lack of opportunity. The other problem: the best small towns in the country are so systematically overlooked by mainstream travel coverage that millions of people drive past them every year on the way to the same crowded destinations.
This guide exists to fix that.
What...
Arizona is not just Grand Canyon postcards and Phoenix sprawl. Tucked between its red-rock mesas, desert grasslands, and mountain sky islands lies a parallel Arizona that most visitors never find, a patchwork of Victorian mining towns, Route 66 relics, artist colonies, wine villages, and ghost-town streets where burros still roam free.
These are the small towns that make Arizona one...
Why Bisbee Became Arizona's Most Unlikely Art Town
When the copper mines closed in 1975, Bisbee should have died.
Other Arizona mining towns did. They became ghost towns, empty buildings, abandoned streets, and a few historic plaques.
Bisbee did not die. It transformed. Explore the beautiful Art Galleries Bisbee AZ for your upcoming visit to Bisbee Arizona.
Artists, writers, and musicians discovered the...
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...