Things to Do in Arizona.
A curated catalogue of 58+ iconic experiences across the state — pulled from the National Park Service, Visit Arizona, and official regional tourism boards.
58 activities
Camelback Mountain
Phoenix's signature urban hike — Echo Canyon or Cholla Trail to a 2,704-ft summit.
Desert Botanical Garden
55-acre showcase of desert plants from around the world — magical at night.
Musical Instrument Museum (MIM)
7,000+ instruments from 200+ countries — wireless headphones play each one as you walk by.
Old Town Scottsdale
Galleries, restaurants, and Western-themed shopping in walkable historic blocks.
Antelope Canyon Slot Tours
Sculpted sandstone slot canyon — only accessible with a Navajo-guided tour.
Cathedral Rock
Sedona's most photographed formation — 1.2-mile climb with hands-on scrambling.
Grand Canyon South Rim
Arizona's most iconic vista — open year-round with shuttle access along the Rim Trail.
Havasu Falls
Turquoise waterfalls deep in the Grand Canyon — permit-only, 10-mile hike in.
Horseshoe Bend
1,000-foot cliff overlooking the Colorado River's dramatic horseshoe curve.
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Towering sandstone buttes on the Arizona-Utah border — drive the 17-mile loop or take a guided tour.
Sedona Red Rock Country
Vortex sites, pink jeep tours, and trails through crimson sandstone formations.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
98-acre hybrid zoo, botanical garden, and natural history museum — outdoors and immersive.
Mission San Xavier del Bac
'The White Dove of the Desert' — a 1797 Spanish mission still in active use.
Saguaro National Park
Two districts flanking Tucson — home to the largest cactus in the United States.
Hoover Dam
Depression-era engineering marvel on the Arizona-Nevada border.
Lake Havasu & London Bridge
Original London Bridge re-erected over a Colorado River channel.
Apache Trail Scenic Drive
40-mile drive past Goldfield ghost town, Canyon Lake, and Tortilla Flat.
Arcosanti
Paolo Soleri's experimental 'arcology' rising from the high desert north of Phoenix.
Chase Field — Arizona Diamondbacks
Catch a Diamondbacks game under a retractable roof in downtown Phoenix.
Heard Museum
America's premier museum of American Indian art and culture.
Jerome
Former 'Wickedest Town in the West' clinging to Cleopatra Hill.
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Five-story cliff dwelling carved into a limestone alcove by the Sinagua people 900 years ago.
Phoenix Zoo
The largest non-profit zoo in the U.S., with 3,000 animals across desert-themed habitats at Papago Park.
Salt River Tubing
Float the cool lower Salt River past wild horses and saguaros — a Phoenix summer rite of passage.
Superstition Mountains
Legend of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine — and miles of saguaro-studded trails.
Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and architectural laboratory — a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tonto Natural Bridge
The world's largest travertine bridge, arching 183 ft over a fern-lined creek in the Mogollon Rim country.
Verde Canyon Railroad
4-hour vintage train ride into a wilderness canyon you can't reach by car.
White Mountains
High-country lakes, ponderosa forest and the Sunrise Park ski resort on the Apache reservation.
Arizona Snowbowl
Ski and snowboard the San Francisco Peaks — Arizona's premier alpine resort.
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Sheer-walled canyon on Navajo Nation land with thousand-year-old cliff dwellings still inhabited today.
Lowell Observatory
Where Pluto was discovered — nightly stargazing in a Dark Sky City.
Meteor Crater
A 4,000-ft-wide impact crater preserved from a 50,000-year-old meteorite strike — the best-preserved on Earth.
Oak Creek Canyon
A 12-mile river gorge between Flagstaff and Sedona, often called a smaller cousin of the Grand Canyon.
Page & Lake Powell
Houseboating, slot canyons and red-rock shoreline on the second-largest reservoir in the U.S.
Petrified Forest National Park
Ancient logs turned to stone scattered across the Painted Desert.
San Francisco Peaks (Humphreys)
Arizona's highest summit (12,633 ft) — a brutal but iconic day hike from Snowbowl.
Slide Rock State Park
Natural sandstone water slide in Oak Creek Canyon — a quintessential Arizona summer swim spot.
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
A 1,000-ft cinder cone from a 1085 CE eruption with a stark lava-flow landscape at its base.
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Cliff-dwellings tucked into a curving limestone canyon — Island Trail descends past 25 rooms.
Wupatki National Monument
Red-rock pueblo ruins built by Ancestral Puebloans in the volcanic high desert.
Biosphere 2
3-acre sealed glass research facility — tour 7 biomes including a rainforest and ocean.
Bisbee
Former copper-mining boomtown turned arts colony in the Mule Mountains.
Chiricahua National Monument
'Wonderland of Rocks' — balanced volcanic spires in a sky-island range.
Kartchner Caverns
Living limestone cave preserved in pristine condition — guided tours only.
Mount Graham
A 10,720-ft sky island with cool conifer forests and the Mount Graham International Observatory.
Mount Lemmon Scenic Byway
From saguaros to pines in 27 miles — Tucson's 'sky island' road.
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the only place in the U.S. where the rare organ pipe cactus grows wild.
Pima Air & Space Museum
One of the world's largest aviation museums, with 425+ aircraft and tours of the AMARG "Boneyard."
Tombstone
'The Town Too Tough to Die' — daily O.K. Corral reenactments on Allen Street.
Tucson Mountain Park
20,000 acres of saguaro forest and rugged trails just west of downtown Tucson.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
Spanish colonial mission ruins on the Santa Cruz River, founded by Father Kino in 1691.
Grand Canyon Skywalk
Glass-bottom horseshoe extending 70 feet over the Colorado River.
Historic Route 66 — Kingman
Longest continuous stretch of the Mother Road — Kingman to Topock.
Hualapai Mountain Park
A cool 8,400-ft pine-and-aspen escape rising from the Mojave Desert near Kingman.
Oatman
Wild burros wander Main Street in this Route 66 mining ghost town.
Parker Strip & Colorado River
16 miles of riverfront party-and-paddle between Headgate Dam and Parker Dam.
Yuma Territorial Prison State Park
'Hellhole of Arizona' — 1876 territorial prison turned state historic park.