Where to go
Places to visit in Arizona
31 towns, cities and natural areas we have written up, with our picks first.
Sedona & Verde Valley
Prescott
Arizona's territorial capital: a courthouse plaza, Whiskey Row and pine country at 5,300 feet
Page & Monument Valley
Chinle
Navajo town at the mouth of Canyon de Chelly, where families still farm the canyon floor
Flagstaff & Painted Desert
Holbrook
The Navajo County seat on Route 66, and the nearest town to Petrified Forest National Park
Lake Havasu & Colorado River
Lake Havasu City
A 1960s planned town on Lake Havasu, sold to its first buyers with the rebuilt London Bridge
Page & Monument Valley
Marble Canyon
A roadside hamlet at Navajo Bridge, beside Lees Ferry and below the Vermilion Cliffs
Sedona & Verde Valley
Cottonwood
Verde River town with a walkable Old Town, a state park and a Sinagua pueblo on its edge
Sedona & Verde Valley
Camp Verde
Interstate town with a preserved Army fort, Sinagua cliff dwellings and a sacred sinkhole
Flagstaff & Painted Desert
Winslow
A Route 66 railroad town between Meteor Crater and the ancestral Hopi villages of Homolovi
Grand Canyon & Kaibab Plateau
Supai
The Havasupai Tribe's village on the floor of Havasu Canyon, 8 miles by trail from the nearest road, open to visitors only with a tribal permit
Tucson & Saguaro
Tubac
Arizona's first European settlement, now an arts village on the Santa Cruz River
Lake Havasu & Colorado River
Kingman
Mohave County's railroad seat on Route 66, with a power-plant museum and the road to Grand Canyon West
Lake Havasu & Colorado River
Yuma
The old Colorado River crossing: a territorial prison, an Army depot and the sunniest winters in the US