Aerial view of Lake Powell's Wahweap Bay with sandstone islands and low-water shorelines

Things to do in Arizona

Outdoor Recreation

Outdoor Recreation in Arizona

32 places
across 21 destinations

Public domain • Photo by NPS via Wikimedia Commons

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

Willcox, Tombstone & Bisbee

Fort Bowie National Historic Site

Adobe ruins at Apache Pass, reached on foot along a 3-mile trail through history

Free

Page, Page & Monument Valley

Horseshoe Bend

An overlook 1,000 feet above a 270-degree bend of the Colorado River, a short walk from US 89

A lone saguaro and rock outcrop with cactus-covered foothills behind in Saguaro National Park West

Tucson, Tucson & Saguaro

Saguaro National Park: Tucson Mountain District

Saguaro West: a dense young cactus forest, a dirt loop drive and Hohokam petroglyphs

From $15

Saguaro-covered slopes of South Mountain with downtown Phoenix in the distance

Phoenix, Phoenix & Superstition Mountains

South Mountain Park/Preserve

More than 16,000 acres and 100 miles of trail on the city's southern edge; heat rules apply

Prescott, Sedona & Verde Valley

Thumb Butte

Prescott's skyline landmark, circled by a popular hiking-only loop in the national forest

From $5

Huge travertine arch of Tonto Natural Bridge over a green canyon

Payson, Phoenix & Superstition Mountains

Tonto Natural Bridge State Park

What may be the world's largest travertine bridge, 183 feet high, in a green canyon near Payson

From $5

Marble Canyon, Page & Monument Valley

Vermilion Cliffs National Monument

280,000 acres of cliffs, slot canyons and the permit-only Coyote Buttes, with condors overhead

White House ruin at the base of a streaked sandstone cliff in Canyon de Chelly

Chinle, Page & Monument Valley

White House Trail

The one trail into Canyon de Chelly you can walk without a guide, down to an 11th-century village

Free

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