In the Old West, West of the Prime Meridian, West of the Rain and the Plow, The Anazazi, The Apache, The Butterworth Stage and The Poney Express, The Cowboys, Tombstone, The Ranchers, The Farmers, The Dam Builders, Citrus and Cotten, Cattle and Copper, Condos Air Conditioning and Canadians... And Finally, The Shoppers... Welcome To Arizona...
Diversity In The New West . . . . . High Tech, Motorola, Intel, Aerospace, Outerspace, Apache Helicopters, Hockey in The Desert, Surf & Turf Paradise, (more boats per capita than any state in the nation) and golf every day for a year, Fine Dining, Top Ranked Resorts, Dangerous Shopping. A Little Bit of Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, and Fresno all rolled into one. . . Welcome To Phoenix...
The Visitor
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Many back road day trips are enticements to get off the well travelled highways and onto the 'bluehighways' of the back roads of Arizona and face to face with the slower scenery, small town histories, rural landscapes and home cooking. Highway #89 is indisputably the most scenic (undesignated) roadway in the West. Rising out of the desert in south central Arizona and traversing the best National Parks in Arizona, Utah, the Tetons and Yellowstone in Wyoming, and exiting the Great Plains into the Canadian prairie at Sweetgrass Montana. In Arizona the western cowboy town of Wickenburg leads the traveller north through Congress, the old territorial capitol Prescott, and Jerome, the gentrified mining town perched on the steep hillside, shades of "McCabe & Mrs. Miller'. On through Sedona, past the Vortexes, up the creek and onto the escarpment of the high plateau and into the last remaining stands of Ponderosa Pine trees, ancient conifers that used to blanket the continent prior the ice ages. Flanked by The San Francisco Peaks, Mt. Humphries and Mt. Agazzi at 12,600 ft. are the tallest points in Arizona. Only a 144 miles from the low of 1,000 ft. at Sky Harbor Airport, the span encompasses 7 diffrent life zones from low desert to tundra. Only a two hour drive north of the Valley of the Sun, Sedona is blessed with a mild climate and magnificant red rock canyonlands, a variety of shops galleries and restauants, hiking and wading in the creek. Flagstaff Old Town is just an espresso shot away from Route #66 and the gateway to the Grand Canyon and the glorious Red Rock Canyonlands, Sunset Crater, prehistoric Wupatki and Walnut Creek cliff dwellings of the Anazazi and Aqua Fria peoples. Land of the Hopi, the Dine, The Painted Desert, the Mighty Colorado, and the allmighty Glen Canyon Damn. Relive the enchantment of train travel to the Grand Canyon from Williams Ariz. and the breathtaking rich scenery and wildlife. Experience the canyon firsthand on a sight seeing overflight, or by hiking, river rafting or mule train or starlight. Arizona is known as the Grand Canyon State, but throughout the state you'll find an astonishing variety landscapes, from striking alpine scenery and spectacular deserts to beautiful rivers and lakes.
