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Low adobe wall ruins of Fort Bowie on a grassy slope at Apache Pass

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Historic Sites

Historic Sites in Arizona

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Historic Sites in Arizona

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Stone walls of Antelope House ruin at the base of a cliff in Canyon del Muerto

Chinle, Page & Monument Valley

Antelope House Overlook

North Rim view down to a canyon-floor village named for its painted antelope

Free

The Powerhouse, a 1900s stone power plant building on Route 66 in Kingman that houses the Arizona Route 66 Museum

Kingman, Lake Havasu & Colorado River

Arizona Route 66 Museum

The Mother Road's story from trade trails to neon, inside Kingman's 1909 Powerhouse

From $6

The great sandstone alcove that shelters Betatakin cliff dwelling at Navajo National Monument

Kayenta, Page & Monument Valley

Betatakin, Navajo National Monument

A 13th-century cliff village in a vast sandstone alcove, seen from a rim trail or on summer ranger hikes

Free

The red-brick Phelps Dodge General Office Building in Bisbee, home of the mining museum

Bisbee, Tombstone & Bisbee

Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

A Smithsonian Affiliate museum in the 1896 Phelps Dodge headquarters

From $11

Single-storey historic depot building at Colorado River State Historic Park in Yuma

Yuma, Lake Havasu & Colorado River

Colorado River State Historic Park

The Army's 1864 Yuma Quartermaster Depot, with steamboat, wagon and irrigation exhibits in five original buildings

From $7

Commanding Officer's Quarters with its shingled mansard roof at Fort Verde State Historic Park

Camp Verde, Sedona & Verde Valley

Fort Verde State Historic Park

The best-preserved Indian Wars fort in Arizona, with original 1870s buildings around a parade ground

From $5

A black steam locomotive and passenger train at the platform of the Williams Depot

Williams, Grand Canyon & Kaibab Plateau

Grand Canyon Railway

The privately run 1901 branch line from Williams to the South Rim depot, a 2-hour-15-minute ride each way

AI-generated illustration of Havasu Falls

Supai, Grand Canyon & Kaibab Plateau

Havasu Falls

A 90-to-100-foot blue-green waterfall on Havasu Creek, on Havasupai land and reached only with a tribal permit

From $2.27

Red sandstone walls of an ancestral Hopi pueblo against a blue sky at Homolovi State Park

Winslow, Flagstaff & Painted Desert

Homolovi State Park

Ancestral Hopi villages on the Little Colorado River, with a museum, a campground and an observatory

From $5

Stone guest hogan with a red roof on the Hubbell homestead in Ganado

Window Rock, Page & Monument Valley

Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site

The oldest operating trading post on the Navajo Nation, still buying rugs and selling groceries in Ganado

Free

The white adobe Douglas Mansion at Jerome State Historic Park

Jerome, Sedona & Verde Valley

Jerome State Historic Park

The 1916 Douglas Mansion, now a museum of Jerome's copper mines and the family that got rich from them

From $5

The Colorado River curving past Lees Ferry, seen from the Spencer Trail

Marble Canyon, Page & Monument Valley

Lees Ferry

The old Colorado River crossing where Grand Canyon river trips begin, with a pioneer ranch nearby

From $30

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Sedona & Verde Valley (8) Tombstone & Bisbee (7) Flagstaff & Painted Desert (5)

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