Travel Advice

The state of Arizona has so much to offer and now with Arizona airfare being so cheap in the shoulder and off-peak seasons you really should visit and discover the state. You may want to tour the Grand Canyon with the beauty of nature showing you just how persistence and time can change something into a true thing of beauty. Or you could want to tour some of the outstanding galleries the state has to offer with the rich history of the Native Americans, Hispanic culture and western culture all available in different locations.

This is a great way to discover your Phoenix vacation. The Heard Museum in Central Arizona is a must see for everyone interested in the heritage of the area. Here you will be exposed to some of the best in traditional and modern American Indian art. There are 10 exhibition galleries that include five long-term and five changing exhibitions with two different locations for you to tour.

While you are visiting the Central Arizona area you may wish to tour Pueblo Grande Museum which is an archaeological site museum and repository. The focus of the museum is enhancing the knowledge of prehistory, history, and ethnology of inhabitants of the Southwest. The museum is located at a 1,500 year-old Hohokam village ruins. You can observe reproductions of the prehistoric Hohokam homes when exploring the ruin trail. At the site is also some of the last remaining intact Hohokam irrigation canals. This is a fantastic piece of Hohokam history.

A few hours to the southeast, you will find wonderful Tucson vacations. Travel on down to Tombstone where you can experience the Old West. Tombstone is known as “The Town Too Tough To Die,” and is the most famous of Arizona’s historic mining camps. This area produced millions of dollars of gold and silver throughout a 7 year period. When you are touring Tombstone you will have the opportunity to visit Boothill Graveyard, the old Tombstone Courthouse and watch many of the residents dressed in period style.

Near Tucson you can visit the Titan Missile Museum which was home to one of the Titan II Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles. There were 18 Titan II missile sites located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. The Titan Missile Museum is the only Titan Missile site that remains intact; all the others were destroyed. You can take a guided tour that takes you into the launch control room with a simulated launch and then travel on through the 200 ft tunnel for an in person look at the Titan II missile. It’s an awesome tour, be sure to make time to stop here.

Travel on over to Yuma and tour the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park. Here you will be able to visit the prison that housed 3,069 prisoners, 29 of whom were female. The prison was last opeartional in 1909 before the prisoners were moved to a new facility. Today you can visit the prison and see the front gate that is so familiar to anyone that has watched western movies.

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