Museums

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

Tucson, Tucson & Saguaro

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

A zoo, botanical garden and aquarium in one, mostly outdoors, west of Tucson

From $2

Bisbee, Tombstone & Bisbee

Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

A Smithsonian Affiliate museum in the 1896 Phelps Dodge headquarters

From $11

Holbrook, Flagstaff & Painted Desert

Blue Mesa

Banded blue, purple and gray badlands on a spur road and a steep 1-mile loop trail in Petrified Forest National Park

From $15

Phoenix, Phoenix & Superstition Mountains

Desert Botanical Garden

140 acres in the Papago Buttes, with one of the world's great cactus and agave collections

From $14.95

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

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

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

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

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