Arizona has a fantastic variety of landscapes and areas of geological interest. Northern Arizona is famous for the Grand Canyon, a scenic deep gorge with steep rocky walls. It is 1.8 km deep and 446 km long along the Colorado River. Other Northern Arizona attractions include the town of Flagstaff, located next to the San Francisco Peaks mountain range with the largest yellow pine forest, the Northern Arizona Museum, and many state parks and monuments. In southern Arizona is the city of Phoenix, the largest in Arizona. During the day in Phoenix you can visit the Hurd Museum, which offers one of the largest displays of Native American art, the Phoenix Historical Museum, and the Desert Botanical Garden with a fine collection of desert plants.
Grand Canyon National Park
The Grand Canyon is one of the oldest national parks in the United States and one of nature’s most perfect creations on earth. The canyon is in Arizona, and before Europeans came here (1540), was inhabited by a tribe of Pueblo Indians who built cave-like dwellings in the canyon.
Antelope Canyon.
A magical and mysterious place that only nature’s whimsical imagination could have created is Antelope Canyon, in the southwestern United States in Arizona. These amazing crevices in the rocks got their name thanks to the red-red walls, so similar to the skin of the graceful and noble antelope.
Arizona Cities
In Phoenix, the state capital, the Arizona Museum, founded in 1929, the Aird Museum of Art, and the Arizona Mormon Temple Main are must-sees. There’s also a large Science Center with more than 300 exhibits on a wide variety of topics. And one of the favorite destinations for tourists remains Papago Park, which also has a great zoo and a huge number of recreational areas.
Tucson is no shortage of attractions, and the most visited cultural site is the Arizona University Museum of Art. In the immediate vicinity of Tucson is the San Javier Reservation, on the territory of which many colonial monuments have survived. For a long time Spanish conquerors lived here, not indifferent to luxurious apartments, and the palaces and villas built by them became a worthy decoration of the picturesque nature of Arizona. Do not miss the opportunity to visit the delightful botanical gardens of Tucson, whose beauty shatters all stereotypes and notions about the meager nature of the desert. The small town of Flagstaff is also noteworthy – it is known for three things: the famous observatory, film shoots, and the surprisingly rich in natural beauty of the surrounding area.