Tours To Arizona

Arizona, the "Grand Canyon State" is one of America's prime tourist destinations. It has the world's largest Ponderosa Pine forest and is home to some most famous Native American tribes. The state is known for its magnificent canyons, spectacular golf courses, alpine lakes, historic Pueblo ruins and numerous state and national parks, which you can visit on the tour to Arizona. Phoenix, the capital of the state is one of the fasting growing cities of the nation.
The state has year-round sunshine with cactus plants, roadrunners, humming birds and rattlesnakes that provide lots of cool desert clichés.
Grown from mining and cow herding to being a big tourist destination, the state provides lot of interesting and varied activities, representing the Wild West.

The Great Basin Desert
The Great Basin Desert in the northeast of the state also called as the Painted Desert is a high desert on the Colorado Plateau. The Grand Canyon, with its one-mile deep and ten-mile wide chasm made by the Colorado River is the most natural feature of the nation. The Grand Canyon National Park, Navajo and Hopi Nations, the biggest
Native American reservation in the country, Powell Lake, the huge artificial lake and the Petrified ForestNational Park are other places in the region worth exploring on the tour to Arizona.

The Sonoran Desert
The desert is known for its big cacti and abundance of wildlife. Named after the state in Mexico, the desert is a popular home to hummingbirds

Phoenix
It is the capital of the state and is linked with cities like Scottsdale, Tempa and Mesa. This growing city has many attractions including the few famous museums like the Heard Museum, known for Native American history, Phoenix Museum of History, Hall of Flame, Pueblo Grande Museum, popular for Native American excavations, Arizona Science Center and Phoenix Art Museum
Scottsdale
The place is known for its Rawhide, the western town and Fleischer Museum, famous for Impressionism.

Mesa
Southwest Museum in this region is very famous. From dinosaurs to gold rush, one can know gain knowledge on various subjects. Then the Champlin Fighter Museum is also there famous for containing warplanes.

Flagstaff and Williams For exploring the natural features of the state these two towns are good centralized locations near to the Grand Canyon. The Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon Railway from Williams are the major attractions here.

Tucson
Nearby Santa Catalina, Tucson and Rincon Mountains, the city has many attractions like Tucson Museum of Art, Old Tucson Studios and Santa Xavier Mission, Saguaro National Park, and Organ Pipe National Monument all in and around the city.
Apart from these places the state boasts of sites like Kartchner Caverns State Park, which is one of the most impressive crystalline cave systems in the world, Biosphere II, Ramsey Canyon Reserve, Tombstone National Historic Landmark, Verde Canyon Railroad and Prescott.
Jerome, a historic mining town, Santa Catalina, Rincon, Chiricahua and Huachuca Mountains are other beautiful and important sites of the state in the south eastern corner of the state, which you should visit on tour to Arizona.

Activities like hiking can be done in various regions of the state like Grand Canyon National Park, Painted Desert, Estrella Mountain Regional Park, Sonoran Desert; Santa Catalina, Tucson, Rincon, Chiricahua and Huachuca Mountains. For Mountain biking, places like Mount Elden, Flagstaff, Sedona; Estrella Mountain among the many are ideal.
The Colorado River, Painted Desert, Salt River and Sonoran Desert are sites good for whitewater rafting and canoeing. Here dude ranches provide opportunities to tourist to join in and play at being cowboys and girls. Rodeos turn extreme ranching techniques into a spectator sport. Some evocative western towns include Rawhide, Scottsdale and Tombstone.
One can also enjoy one's stay through Skiing and Snowboarding in regions in places like White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation, Mt Lemmon, Santa Catalina Range, Humphrey's Peak and San Francisco Range
Arizona
LOCATION

GRAND CANYON: The most-well known sight in the state is the fabulous Grand Canyon. The canyon is a colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in northern Arizona. The canyon is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and is largely contained in the Grand Canyon National Park-one of the first national parks in the US. Visitors can enjoy the natural beauties of the park by foot, air, river, mule, and train. But, if you want to see the Grand Canyon in its grandeur, opt for helicopter and airplane tours.
Though the Grand Canyon is one of the most-popular spots of the state, missing the other destinations of the state would be a folly. The state boasts of a wide variety of national parks and is a land steeped in legends.

Other interesting visits areas are:
Agua Fria (national monument): There are at least 450 prehistoric sites that were occupied between AD 1250 and1450.

Canyonde Chelly (national monument): These are the Anasazi Indian ruins.

Casa Grande Ruins (national monument): Hohokam Indian ruin occupied from 900-1450 AD.

Chiricahua (national monument): Spires and oddly shaped rocks, including the Totem Pole.

Coronado (national monument): This place marks the first European exploration of Arizona.

Fort Bowie (national historical site): Check out the remains of a frontier Army fort.

Glen Canyon (national historical site): Over 1.2 million acres of fishing, boating, hiking, and camping.

Grand Canyon (national park): One of the largest canyons in the world. Go for the breathtaking scenic beauty, hiking, rafting, mule rides.
Grand Canyon-Parashant (national monument): Enjoy the geological features, which tells a story of 11,000 years of human history.

Hubbell Trading Post (national historical site): The oldest continuously operating trading post on the Navajo Reservation.

Other interesting areas are:

Ironwood Forest (NM)
Lake Mead (NRA)
Montezuma Castle (NM)
Navajo (NM)
Organ Pipe Cactus (NM)
Petrified Forest (NP)
Pipe Spring (NM)
Saguaro (NP)
Sonoran Desert (NM)
Sunset Crater (NM)
Tonto (NM)
Tumacacori (NHP)
Tuzigoot (NM)
Vermilion Cliffs (NM)
Walnut Canyon (NM)
Wupatki (NM)

THINGS TO DO IN ARIZONA
The state has almost single-handedly shaped what we know as the Wild West. And, Arizona to its credit has kept alive this image in communities, guest ranches and historical parks by paying homage to famous lawmen and notorious gunslingers. A glimpse of the cowboy life can be gleaned from a visit to almost any part of the state. Roam through the small towns of southern Arizona like Brewery Gulch, Sierra Vista, Bisbee, Benson and others for a feel of the way the West was.
The state is also known for being a sports lover's paradise. There are 325 golf courses and their numbers are increasing everyday. Phoenix is home to the World Champion Arena Football League Arizona Rattlers. Other than these there are hundreds of indoor and outdoor malls, antique stores, clothing boutiques, gift shops, and art galleries. There are plenty of nightspots, theaters, and other places to relax, and plenty of good places to enjoy wonderful meals.