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Aerial view of Meteor Crater, a bowl-shaped impact crater with a raised rim on the desert plain

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Natural Wonders in Arizona

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Natural Wonders in Arizona

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Calcite formations lit in the Big Room of Kartchner Caverns

Sierra Vista, Tombstone & Bisbee

Kartchner Caverns State Park

A living limestone cave, kept secret for years and shown only on guided tours

From $5

AI-generated illustration of Grand Canyon West and the Skywalk

Kingman, Lake Havasu & Colorado River

Grand Canyon West and the Skywalk

The Hualapai Tribe's own rim of the Grand Canyon, with a glass walkway over the edge at Eagle Point

From $99

Red volcanic rock and desert shrubs along the Painted Desert Trail at Imperial National Wildlife Refuge

Yuma, Lake Havasu & Colorado River

Imperial National Wildlife Refuge

Thirty miles of Colorado River backwaters north of Yuma, including the river's last unchannelled stretch before Mexico

Free

Aerial view of Meteor Crater, a bowl-shaped impact crater with a raised rim on the desert plain

Winslow, Flagstaff & Painted Desert

Meteor Crater

A privately run impact crater nearly a mile across and about 50,000 years old, with a museum and guided rim walks off I-40

From $25

The twin steel arches of Navajo Bridge over Marble Canyon below the Vermilion Cliffs

Marble Canyon, Page & Monument Valley

Navajo Bridge

Twin steel arches 467 feet above the Colorado River, the old one now open to walkers

A clump of organ pipe cactus below rocky desert mountains in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Ajo, Tucson & Saguaro

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

The only large natural stands of organ pipe cactus in the US, on the Mexican border

From $15

View up Sabino Canyon with saguaro-dotted slopes on both sides and green streamside trees below

Tucson, Tucson & Saguaro

Sabino Canyon

A creek-cut canyon in the Santa Catalinas, with an electric shuttle and long trails

From $5

Spider Rock's twin sandstone spires rising from a snow-dusted Canyon de Chelly

Chinle, Page & Monument Valley

Spider Rock Overlook

The last stop on Canyon de Chelly's South Rim Drive, above a 750-foot sandstone spire

Free

Sunset Crater's cinder cone and summit crater dotted with pines, seen from the air

Flagstaff, Flagstaff & Painted Desert

Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument

Arizona's youngest volcano, a cinder cone that erupted around 1085, with lava-flow trails at its base

From $15

AI-generated illustration of Upper Antelope Canyon

Page, Page & Monument Valley

Upper Antelope Canyon

A Navajo slot canyon near Page, wider at the bottom, entered only with a Navajo guide

From $15

AI-generated illustration of Window Rock Navajo Tribal Park and Veterans Memorial

Window Rock, Page & Monument Valley

Window Rock Navajo Tribal Park and Veterans Memorial

The sandstone arch that names the Navajo capital, beside a memorial to Navajo veterans and Code Talkers

Free

Red and white petrified log lying in dry grass with snow patches in Petrified Forest National Park

Holbrook, Flagstaff & Painted Desert

Petrified Forest National Park

Late Triassic logs, Painted Desert badlands, ancestral Puebloan sites and a stretch of old Route 66 along a 28-mile park road

From $15

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Page & Monument Valley (7) Phoenix & Superstition Mountains (4) Grand Canyon & Kaibab Plateau (4)

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