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Canyons & deserts

Grand Canyon National Park

Tusayan, AZ · Grand Canyon$

The Grand Canyon's South Rim, 81 miles from Flagstaff, Arizona, is open 24 hours a day all year. The North Rim, 215 miles away by road, lost its lodge to the Dragon Bravo Fire in…

Canyons & deserts

Petrified Forest National Park

Holbrook, AZ · Painted Desert, Northern Arizona$

One road, about 28 miles long, runs the length of Petrified Forest. The fossil logs lie at the south end near Holbrook, and on the Giant Logs and Crystal Forest trails the trunks…

Canyons & deserts

Saguaro National Park

Tucson, AZ · Sonoran Desert$

The big stands of saguaro are on the west side of Tucson, Arizona, in the park's Tucson Mountain District. They bloom from late May through July, when highs can pass 105 degrees…

Caves

Kartchner Caverns State Park

Benson, AZ · Sonoran Desert$$

Hidden under the Whetstone Mountains until cavers found it in 1974, Kartchner is a living cave where water still drips calcite onto formations that have been growing for 50,000…

Lakes & rivers

Havasu Falls

Supai, AZ · Havasupai Reservation, Grand Canyon, Arizona$$$

Havasu Falls owes its color to chemistry. Havasu Creek runs thick with calcium carbonate, and as the water drops roughly 90 to 100 feet off a red sandstone cliff, that mineral…

Attractions

Kitt Peak National Observatory

Sells, AZ · Quinlan Mountains, Southern Arizona$$

Kitt Peak sits at 6,875 feet in the Quinlan Mountains on the Tohono O'odham Nation, about 55 miles southwest of Tucson. The summit holds more than 20 optical telescopes and two…

Canyons & deserts

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Kayenta, AZ · Colorado Plateau, Navajo Nation, Northern Arizona$

The buttes rise 400 to 1,000 feet off a red sand floor, and from the visitor center terrace the Mittens sit close enough that the scale finally registers. This is Navajo Nation…

Canyons & deserts

Antelope Canyon

Page, AZ · Colorado Plateau, Navajo Nation near Page

Antelope Canyon cuts through Navajo Sandstone on Navajo Nation land east of Page, and the walls are the point: flood water has sanded them into stacked, flowing curves that shift…

Canyons & deserts

The Wave (Coyote Buttes North)

Fredonia, AZ · Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona Strip$

The Wave is a bowl of Navajo Sandstone in Coyote Buttes North, where 190 million year old dune beds erode into intersecting troughs of red, cream and pale orange, iron oxide…

Canyons & deserts

Sedona Red Rock Country

Sedona, AZ · Verde Valley and Red Rock Country, Northern Arizona$

Cathedral Rock is the shape everyone recognizes, a cluster of red sandstone fins standing over Oak Creek and glowing hardest an hour before sunset. The Forest Service rates the…

Canyons & deserts

Canyon de Chelly National Monument

Chinle, AZ · Colorado Plateau, Navajo Nation, Northeastern ArizonaFree

Three canyons meet here, cut into De Chelly sandstone that rises in sheer red walls, over 1,000 feet at the deepest. People have farmed the floor for nearly 5,000 years, and…

Canyons & deserts

White Pocket

Page, AZ · Vermilion Cliffs, Colorado Plateau, Northern ArizonaFree

White Pocket is a square mile of Navajo sandstone that looks poured rather than laid down. Cream and coral domes crack into polygonal plates people call brain rock, with red and…