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Phoenix has one of the most generous travel radiuses in the country. In under two hours you can be in red rock country, a pine forest, or a former copper-mining town. After years of running these routes, here are the 15 day trips I actually do — and the ones I quietly stopped recommending.
Tucson sits at the convergence of the Sonoran Desert and four sky-island mountain ranges. That gives it a day-trip radius that runs from saguaro forests to pine-covered 9,000-foot peaks. Here are the 12 trips locals actually take.
Arizona's icons get the crowds. Its quieter places get the magic. Here are 20 hidden gems — slot canyons, mineral springs, ghost towns, and overlooked state parks — that I've documented over years of exploring the state.
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum is Arizona's oldest and largest botanical garden — 400 acres tucked under Picketpost Mountain east of Phoenix. It's a perfect spring half-day and one of the best photo locations in the state.
Tonto National Monument is the cliff dwelling everyone in Arizona has driven past and almost nobody has visited. It overlooks Roosevelt Lake from a 700-year-old Salado-built alcove and deserves to be on more itineraries.
The Mogollon Rim is the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau — a 200-mile cliff that splits Arizona in half. Driving the top of it is one of the great Western road trips, and it's 90 minutes from Phoenix.
Mission San Xavier del Bac is the oldest intact European structure in Arizona — a stark white 1797 Spanish colonial church rising out of the Tohono O'odham Nation, 9 miles south of Tucson.
Sabino Canyon is Tucson's backyard — a creek-fed canyon at the foot of the Santa Catalinas with year-round water, an electric shuttle, and some of the most underrated swimming holes in southern Arizona.
Yes, Arizona has wine country — and it's good. The Verde Valley grows grapes at 3,500 feet between Sedona's red rocks and the Black Hills. Here's how to do the trail in one day.
