Listed below are links to Attractions, Museums, Parks and Zoos categorized by Central, Northern and Southern Arizona. The more popular links are in red. There are lots of things to do whether you like military aircraft, astronomy, caves, western art, modern art or you like to do everything. This may be the most comprehensive list of places to visit & things to do in Arizona. Even though most websites are up to date, be sure to make a call before heading out to any of these locations. Enjoy!
Central Arizona - (& Phoenix metro area)
Apache Junction:
Arizona Renaissance Festival (E of Apache Junction on US 60)
Superstition Mountain Museum
Buckeye:
Buckeye Valley Museum
Canyon Lake:
Dolly Steamboat
Cave Creek: (This town is a destination on its own.)
Cave Creek Museum
Spur Cross Ranch
Chandler:
Arizona Railway Museum
Chandler Museum
McCullough-Price House
Parks in Chandler
Rawhide – See “Gila River Indian Reservation”
Gila Bend:
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site (W of Gila Bend)
Gila River Indian Reservaton:
Ak-Chin Him-Dak Eco-Museum
Huhugam Heritage Center
Rawhide Wild West Town (previously located n Scottsdale)
Gilbert:
Gilbert Historical Museum
Glendale:
Adobe Mountain Railroad Museum & Desert Railroad
Aviation Museum - Luke Air Force Base - Air Park
Bead Museum (The) (Previously located in Prescott, AZ)
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
Glendale Arizona Historical Society
Glendale Arts Commission
Glendale Library & Arts Department
Glendale Police Museum
Luke Air Force Base – see Surprise, AZ (below)
Sahuaro Ranch Park Historical Area
Globe:
Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park
Tonto National Monument (25 miles N of Globe)
Lake Havasu City:
London Bridge
Mesa:
Arizona Museum For Youth
Arizona Museum of Natural History (dinosaurs)
Champlain Fighter Museum - Closed - Move to the State of Washington
Fitch Park
Mesa Historical Museum
Mesa Southwest Museum
Sirrine House
Usery Mountain Regional Park
Phoenix:
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Arizona Doll & Toy Museum
Arizona Hall of Fame Museum
Arizona Historical Society (also in Flagstaff, Yuma & Tucson)
Arizona Humanities Council
Arizona Military Museum
Arizona Mining & Mineral Museum
Arizona Science Center
Arizona State Capitol Museum
Barbara Anderson Girl Scout Museum
Camelback Mountain & Echo Canyon Trail
Central Arizona Museums Association
Children's Museum of Phoenix
Desert Botanical Gardens
Enchanted Island Amusement Park (Encanto Park)
George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
Hall of Flame Fire Museum
Heard Museum
Heritage Square
L. Ron Hubbard House at Camelback
Medical Museum
Museum Association of Arizona
Phoenix Airport Museum
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix Museum of History
Phoenix Police Museum
Phoenix Trolley Museum
Phoenix Zoo
Piestewa Peak/Dreamy Draw Area
Pioneer Living History Village
Pueblo Grande Museum & Archaeological Park
Rossen House Museum
Shemer Art Center & Museum
South Mountain Park
Stevens-Haustgen Hands-On Heritage Museum
Sunnyslope Historical Society
Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum
Wells Fargo History Museum
Wrigley Mansion Club (tours)
Queen Creek:
Schnepf Farms
Safford:
Discovery Park Campus
Mount Graham International Observatory
Scottsdale:
African American Multicultural Museum
Cosanti (Architect: Paolo Soleri)
El Dorado Park
Fleischer Museum
Heard Museum North
Hoo-Hoogam Ki Museum
Penske Racing Museum
Scottsdale Historical Museum
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Taliesin West (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Sun City:
Sun Cities Museum of Art - see West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ
Superior:
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Surprise:
Heard Museum West
Luke Air Force Base
West Valley Art Museum
Tempe:
Arizona Cultural Inventory Project
Arizona State University, Archives and Public Records
Arizona State University Art Museum
Arizona State University Museum of Anthropology
Arizona State University Museums, Galleries & Collections (A - Z)
Arizona State University Northlight Gallery
Halle Heart Center Museum
Kiwanis Park Recreation Center
Petersen (Niels) House Museum
Robert S. Dietz Museum of Geology
SRP Heritage History Center
Tempe Historical Museum
Tempe Historical Society
Whiteriver:
Kinishba Ruins (7 miles W of Whiteriver)
Wickenburg:
Desert Caballeros Western Museum
Northern Arizona
Camp Verde:
Fort Verde State Historic Park
Montezuma Castle & Well
Out of Africa Wildlife Park
Chinle:
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Clarkdale:
Tuzigoot National Monument
Verde Canyon Railroad
Cordes Junction:
Arcosanti -- an urban laboratory
Cottonwood:
Clemenceau Heritage Museum
Flagstaff:
Arboretum (The) at Flagstaff
Arizona Historical Society (also in Phoenix, Tucson & Yuma)
Elden Pueblo (Archaeological) (Near Mt. Elden)
Flagstaff Science Center - U. S. Geological Survey
Flagstaff Nordic Center (15 miles NW of Flagstaff)
Lowell Observatory
Museum of Northern Arizona
Parks (City) in Flagstaff - See menu on left side
Pioneer Museum
Renaissance in the Pines (usually in June)
Riordan Mansion State Historic Park
Route 66
Sunset Crater Volcano (12 miles N of Flagstaff)
Walnut Canyon National Monument (7 miles E of Flagstaff)
Winterfest Flagstaff
Wupatki National Monument (near Sunset Crater)
Fort Apache:
Fort Apache Historic Park
Grand Canyon:
Grand Canyon National Park
Greer:
Butterfly Lodge Museum
Havasupai:
Havasupai Tribe (Havasu Falls - Navajo Falls - Mooney Falls - Beaver Falls)
Holbrook:
Navajo County Museum
Painted Desert - 25 miles E of Holbrook on N side of Interstate 40
Petrified Forest (19 miles east of Holbrook on S side of Interstate 40)
Hoover Dam:
Hoover Dam
Jerome:
Jerome Historical Society Mine Museum
Kayenta:
Monument Valley (N of Kayenta)
Navajo National Monument (SW of Kayenta)
Kingman:
Mohave Museum of History & Arts
Mayer:
Arcosanti (Architect: Paolo Soleri)
Page:
Antelope Canyon
John Wesley Powell Memorial Museum
Pine:
Tonto Natural Bridge State Park (S of Pine; N of Payson)
Prescott:
Bead Museum - moved to Glendale, AZ
Phippen Museum - Art of the American West
Sharlot Hall Museum
Smoki Museum
Rimrock: (N of Camp Verde)
V-Bar-V Ramch Petroglyph Site
Second Mesa:
Hopi Cultural Center (60 miles north of Winslow)
Sedona:
Honanki Heritage Site (Archaeological)
Palatki Heritage Site (Archaeological)
Red Rock Crossing - Cresent Moon Picnic Area
Red Rock State Park
Sedona Heritage Museum
Slide Rock State Park
Tlaquepaque - Arts & Crafts Village
Show Low:
Show Low Historical Society Museum
Snowflake:
Stinson Pioneer Museum
Springerville:
Casa Malpais Archaelogical Park & Museum
Little House Museum
Renee Cushman Art Museum
St. Johns:
Apache County Historical Society Museum
White Mountain Archaeological Center
St. Michaels:
St. Michaels Historic Mission & Museum
Taylor:
Taylor/Shumway Heritage Foundation
Teec Nos Pos:
Four Corners Monument (NE corner of Arizona)
Valle:
Planes of Fame Air Museum (30 miles north or Williams)
Williams:
Grand Canyon Railway
Window Rock:
Navajo Nation Museum
Winslow:
Homolovi Ruins State Park (NW of Winslow)
Meteor Crater (20 miles E of Winslow)
Southern Arizona
Ajo:
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (S of Ajo)
Benson:
Kartchner Caverns State Park (9 miles south of Benson)
San Pedro Valley Arts & Historical Museum
Bisbee:
Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden
Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
Bisbee Restoration Museum
Muheim Heritage House
Queen Mine Tours
Bowie:
Fort Bowie National Historic Site
Casa Grande:
Casa Grande Valley Historical Society & Museum
Coolidge:
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Douglas:
Cochise County Historical Society & Douglas House Museum
Slaughter Ranch - formerly San Bernadino Ranch (19 miles E of Douglas)
Dragoon:
Amerind Foundation Museum
Hereford:
Coronado National Memorial
Kitt Peak:
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Nogales:
Pimeria Alta Historical Society Museum
Oracle:
Biosphere 2 (just north of Tucson past Oro Valley)
Picacho:
Picacho Peak State Park
Sahuarita:
Titan Missile Museum (26 miles south of Tucson)
Safford:
Discovery Park
Sierra Vista:
Fort Huachuca Historical Museum
St. David:
San Pedro Riparian Conservation Area
Sunsites:
Cochise Stronghold -- Coronado National Forest
Tombstone:
Boot Hill & Cochise County Court House
O. K. Corral
Tucson:
390th Memorial Museum
Agua Caliente Ranch House Gallery
AHS Downtown Museum (click on ‘Tucson’)
Arizona Historical Society (also in Flagstaff, Phoenix & Yuma)
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Arizona State Museum
Asarco Mineral Discovery Center
Castaneda Museum of Ethnic Costume
Center for Creative Photography
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun
Flandrau Science Center - University of Arizona
Fort Lowell Museum
Hammerblow Mining Museum
History of Pharmacy Museum - University of Arizona
Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO)
International Wildlife Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art
Old Tucson Studios
Old West Movie Poster Museum
Otis H. Chidester Scout Museum
Pima Air & Space Museum
Postal History Foundation
Reid Park Zoo (Tucson Zoo)
Sabino Canyon
San Xavier del Bac Mission
Sosa-Carillo-Fremont (John C.) House (click on ‘Tucson’)
Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute
Sonoran Sea Aquarium
Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
T Rex Museum (a children’s dinosaur museum – Temporarily Closed)
Tohono Chul Park
Tohono O'odham Nation Cultural Center & Museum
Tucson Association of Museums
Tucson Audubon Society
Tucson Botanical Gardens
Tucson Children's Museum
Tucson Main Museum (Arizona History Museum) (click on ‘Tucson’)
Tucson Museum of Art & Historic Block
Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum
University of Arizona Mineral Museum
University of Arizona Museum of Art
Tubac:
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park (45 miles S of Tucson)
Tumacacori National Historic Park (50 miles S of Tucson)
Vail:
Colossal Cave Mountain Park (17 miles E of Tucson)
Willcox:
Chiricahua National Monument (36 miles SE of Willcox)
Chiricahua Regional Museum
Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum & Cowboy Hall of Fame
Yuma:
Arizona Historical Society (also in Flagstaff, Phoenix & Tucson)
Century House Museum 520-782-1841
Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park (Yuma Crossing State Park)
Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park
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