Things to do in Arizona
Historic Sites
Historic Sites in Arizona
- 61 places
- across 30 destinations
Historic Sites in Arizona
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Flagstaff, Flagstaff & Painted Desert
Lowell Observatory
The 1894 observatory on Mars Hill where Pluto was discovered, open afternoons and evenings for tours and telescope viewing
From $20
Prescott, Sedona & Verde Valley
Sharlot Hall Museum
Arizona's first Governor's Mansion and other territorial buildings on a four-acre campus
From $9
Sedona, Sedona & Verde Valley
Slide Rock State Park
An 80-foot natural water chute below a historic apple orchard in Oak Creek Canyon
From $5
Tombstone, Tombstone & Bisbee
Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park
The 1882 Cochise County courthouse, Arizona's first operating state park
From $5
Phoenix, Phoenix & Superstition Mountains
Heard Museum
American Indian art in 12 galleries, told from a first-person perspective since 1929
From $5
Page, Page & Monument Valley
Lower Antelope Canyon
The narrow, stair-laced Navajo slot canyon near Page, visited only on guided tours
From $15
Tucson, Tucson & Saguaro
Mission San Xavier del Bac
A working 18th-century church on the Tohono O'odham Nation, 9 miles south of Tucson
Flagstaff, Flagstaff & Painted Desert
Museum of Northern Arizona
A museum of the Colorado Plateau's peoples, fossils and landscapes, founded in 1928, in a lava-rock building below the San Francisco Peaks
From $13
Camp Verde, Sedona & Verde Valley
Montezuma Castle National Monument
A five-story, 20-room Sinagua cliff dwelling set high in a limestone wall
From $10
Holbrook, Flagstaff & Painted Desert
Painted Desert Inn
A Pueblo Revival inn on the Painted Desert rim with Hopi murals by Fred Kabotie, now Petrified Forest's temporary visitor center
From $15
Apache Junction, Phoenix & Superstition Mountains
Tonto National Monument
Two Salado cliff dwellings from the 1300s above Roosevelt Lake, one reached only by guided tour
From $10
Grand Canyon Village, Grand Canyon & Kaibab Plateau
Desert View Watchtower
Mary Colter's 1932 stone tower at the east end of the South Rim, looking down on the Colorado River where Marble Canyon opens out
From $35
Historic Sites Overview
Historic Sites in Arizona