Destinations
In-depth guides with real prices, honest opinions, and the practical details that make or break an Arizona trip.
Phoenix Metro
Desert luxury meets urban adventure in the Valley of the Sun. World-class spas, golf, dining, and year-round sunshine.
Phoenix
Spring training baseball, the Desert Botanical Garden, world-class Sonoran Mexican food, and 325 days of sunshine — visit October through April to understand why so many people choose to stay
From $45/day
Scottsdale
Old Town galleries, Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin West, the finest resort spa concentration in the American West, and a food scene that consistently surprises visitors expecting desert mediocrity
From $55/day
Northern Arizona
Canyons, red rocks, and mountain towns. Home to the Grand Canyon, Sedona's vortexes, and Monument Valley's iconic buttes.
Flagstaff
A ponderosa pine mountain town at 7,000 feet — Route 66 nostalgia, the observatory where Pluto was discovered, serious craft beer culture, and Grand Canyon South Rim exactly one hour south
From $45/day
Grand Canyon
A mile deep, 10 miles wide, and 277 miles long — photographs cannot capture the actual scale and standing at the rim for the first time genuinely stops people mid-sentence
From $50/day
Monument Valley
Every John Ford Western ever filmed used this landscape — the Mittens and Merrick Butte are Navajo Nation land and Navajo-led tours bring knowledge that no outside ranger can replicate
From $40/day
Page
Antelope Canyon light beams through narrow sandstone slots, Horseshoe Bend 270-degree river curve 1,000 feet below, Lake Powell blue reservoir — all within 20 miles of one small Arizona town
From $50/day
Petrified Forest National Park
225-million-year-old trees turned to quartz crystal scattered across the Painted Desert — utterly flat, vast, and alien in a way that the canyon parks never quite manage
From $30/day
Sedona
Red rock formations glowing in the afternoon light, energy vortexes drawing seekers from around the world, excellent Southwestern cuisine, and the best small-airport approach view in the United States
From $60/day
Southern Arizona
Historic towns, giant cacti, and Sonoran desert beauty. Tucson's food scene and the Wild West come alive here.
Bisbee
A Victorian copper mining town in the Mule Mountains that artists discovered in the 1970s and never left — a thousand steps connecting neighborhoods, a mine tour, and Arizona most atmospheric historic hotel
From $40/day
Saguaro National Park
The saguaro cactus grows only in this corner of the world — these two-armed giants take 150 years to grow their first arm and the oldest ones here predate Arizona statehood in 1912
From $35/day
Tombstone
The OK Corral gunfight lasted 31 seconds on October 26, 1881, and this town has been telling that story ever since with period reenactments, Bird Cage Theatre, and Boot Hill Cemetery
From $35/day
Tucson
A UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy — the Sonoran hot dog alone is worth the drive, the desert hiking is world-class, and Saguaro National Park wraps both ends of the city in giant cactus forest
From $40/day
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