A Patriotic Family Road Trip in Arizona

Arizona State Capitol Museum

Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix's original capitol wears a copper dome — a tribute to the industry that built the state.

Tombstone

Tombstone, AZ

The Wild West town that gave us the O.K. Corral gunfight and the phrase "too tough to die."

Goldfield Ghost Town

Apache Junction, AZ

A rebuilt 1890s gold-mining town at the foot of the Superstition Mountains, near the legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine.

Old Tucson

Tucson, AZ

A movie set built in 1939 for the film Arizona, where hundreds of Westerns were shot.

The Wigwam

Litchfield Park, AZ

A resort that began in 1929 as a lodge for Goodyear Tire executives visiting the company's cotton farms.

Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon Village, AZ

A mile deep, eighteen miles across, and two billion years of rock laid bare.

Pueblo Grande Museum Archaeological Park

Phoenix, AZ

The ruins of a Hohokam village that stood for more than a thousand years beside the Salt River.

Taliesin West

Scottsdale, AZ

Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school, begun in 1937 in the desert foothills.

Rosson House

Phoenix, AZ

An 1895 Victorian house museum in Heritage Square, one of the few buildings left from territorial-era Phoenix.

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

Coolidge, AZ

A four-story earthen "Great House" built by the Ancestral Sonoran Desert People around 1350, protected in 1892 as the nation's first archaeological reserve.

Pioneer Arizona Living History Museum

Phoenix, AZ

Some thirty historic and reconstructed buildings from territorial Arizona, with costumed interpreters, on the north edge of Phoenix.

Mission San Xavier del Bac

Tucson, AZ

A white mission church completed in 1797 on the Tohono O'odham Nation, called the "White Dove of the Desert."

Tumacácori National Historical Park

Tumacácori, AZ

The ruins of Spanish colonial missions in the Santa Cruz Valley, the oldest founded in 1691 by Father Eusebio Kino.

Tubac Presidio State Historic Park

Tubac, AZ

The site of a Spanish fort founded in 1752, Arizona's first state park, with an 1885 schoolhouse.

Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón

Tucson, AZ

A reconstructed corner of the 1775 Spanish fort around which Tucson grew, with living-history days in its plaza.

Pipe Spring National Monument

Fredonia, AZ

A spring and stone fort, Winsor Castle, built by Mormon ranchers in 1870 on Kaibab Paiute land.

McFarland State Historic Park

Florence, AZ

The 1878 adobe Pinal County courthouse in Florence, one of Arizona's oldest towns.

Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza

Phoenix, AZ

A memorial park beside the Arizona Capitol holding an anchor of the USS Arizona and dozens of memorials to Arizonans who served.

National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona

Phoenix, AZ

A national cemetery in north Phoenix with a memorial walkway honoring Arizona's veterans.

Arizona Military Museum

Phoenix, AZ

A museum on the Papago Park Military Reservation tracing Arizona's military history from the Spanish era to today.

Commemorative Air Force Airbase Arizona

Mesa, AZ

A flying museum at Mesa's Falcon Field, a World War II pilot-training base, and home of the B-17 "Sentimental Journey."

Pima Air & Space Museum

Tucson, AZ

One of the largest aerospace museums in the world, with some 400 aircraft and tours of the Davis-Monthan "Boneyard."

Titan Missile Museum

Sahuarita, AZ

The only Titan II missile site preserved for the public, with the missile still in its silo.

Heard Museum

Phoenix, AZ

A museum of American Indian art and culture founded in Phoenix in 1929, known for its Southwest collections.

Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting

Phoenix, AZ

One of the largest firefighting museums in the world, with engines from hand pumpers on, and a hall of heroes honoring firefighters killed in the line of duty.

Arizona History Museum

Tucson, AZ

The Arizona Historical Society's museum, from Spanish exploration to territorial mining and ranching.