Winslow

History Homolovi State Park says "Homolovi" is Hopi for "place of the little hills", the traditional Hopi name for Winslow. Between the 1200s and the late 1300s, the Hisat'sinom, the long-ago people, farmed the Little Colorado's floodplain here before moving north to the Hopi Mesas. In 1876 Mormon settlers founded Sunset, a farming village on the river with the first post office on the Little Colorado. It was abandoned in the 1880s, and its cemetery, now inside the state park, is all that is left. The railroad crossed the Little Colorado at Winslow for the same reason older trails used this ford: rock close to the surface of the riverbed kept quicksand from forming. A Harvey House railroad hotel designed by Mary Colter opened in 1930, and Winslow-Lindbergh Regional Airport was originally built by Transcontinental Air Transport to a design by Charles Lindbergh.

When I-40 bypassed downtown, many local businesses closed. The Standin' on the Corner Foundation, formed to bring visitors back, raised money from 1997 and opened its park on September 10 and 11, 1999. A fire on October 18, 2004 burned most of the building behind the corner, but its facade and the corner itself survived.

What to See Standin' on the Corner Park has a two-story trompe-l'oeil mural, a Ford flatbed truck, a bronze troubadour with a guitar and, since September 2016, a life-size statue of Glenn Frey. The City of Winslow streams live video of the corner on its website. Homolovi State Park protects more than 300 archaeological sites on over 4,000 acres. A paved, wheelchair-accessible trail reaches Homolovi II, the largest site, a pueblo with an estimated 1,200 to 2,000 rooms. The visitor center has a museum of Hopi history and art, and the park's observatory, the only permanent one in an Arizona state park, holds star parties. Homolovi I, by the river, was closed for erosion damage when this guide was checked in November 2026.

Meteor Crater, west of town off I-40 exit 233, is privately owned and run, with a museum, lookout points and guided walks along the rim. In town, the 9-11 Remembrance Garden at East 3rd Street and Transcon Lane is built around two steel beams from the World Trade Center, 14 and 15 feet long. The Old Trails Museum, run by the Winslow Historical Society, covers the town's ranching, railroad and Native American history.

Getting There Winslow is on I-40, about 59 miles east of downtown Flagstaff and about 34 miles west of Holbrook by road. Amtrak's Southwest Chief stops at Winslow, and Hopi Senom Transit runs buses from Winslow to the Hopi Reservation. The Hopi Mesas are about 65 miles north of Homolovi, and the park's staff will help you plan a visit.

When to Go Winslow is lower, drier and warmer than Flagstaff, at about 4,850 feet, with about 7 inches of precipitation and 8 inches of snow in an average year. Meteor Crater says its site is about 8 degrees warmer than Flagstaff. Summers are hot, and the monsoon season runs from June 15 to September 30. The town's Standin' on the Corner street festival is traditionally held in the last week of September, and Homolovi's star parties take place on the second Saturday of each month from April to November.