Arizona
From the rim of the Grand Canyon down to the saguaro country of the Mexican border — the longest surviving stretch of Route 66, the homelands of twenty-two tribal nations, red-rock canyons, and mining towns that outlived their mines.
All of Arizona, One Map
Tap any dot to discover what makes a place worth the stop.
Plan a Trip
Day-by-day plans — real drive times, honest overnights, and the permit fine print sorted before you leave.
Scenic Drives
The roads themselves — traced end to end, with the stops worth making along the way.
Historic Route 66
Arizona's stretch of the Mother Road — the longest preserved run of Route 66 in the country, from the ponderosa high country down through Seligman and Kingman to the Oatman switchbacks and the Colorado River.
I-15: The Virgin River Gorge
Three states in twenty-nine Arizona miles — I-15 threads the Virgin River Gorge, the most expensive rural interstate ever built, following the desert water that drew every road here from the Old Spanish Trail to the Las Vegas Springs.
Route 66: The Topock Crossing
Ninety-six miles of the Mother Road's hardest crossing — Kingman over Sitgreaves Pass to Oatman, then down to the Colorado River at Topock, where three bridges, a sacred Mojave geoglyph and a chromium plume all sit on the same half mile of ground.
U.S. 163: The Monument Valley Crossing
Sixty-eight miles up US-163 out of the Navajo Nation — from Kayenta and the Code Talkers past sacred Agathla and the buttes the world mistakes for the West, across the reservation's edge into Utah's free-roaming canyon country.
US-89: Climbing the Grand Staircase
The climb from Lake Powell to Bryce Canyon — up the Grand Staircase, where each step north is younger rock and higher ground, from the slickrock desert to the Pink Cliffs and their hoodoos.
US-93: The Hoover Dam Crossing
The desert run from Kingman to Las Vegas — over the one place where Arizona and Nevada physically meet: Hoover Dam, wedged into Black Canyon, and the reservoir and neon it made possible.
Trails Across the West
Themed journeys that thread Arizona into the wider West — one story, told state to state.
Ghost Towns of the West
The boom-and-bust West in thirteen towns — the silver, the gold, the copper, and every kind of ending.
Dark Skies of the West
The last of the natural night in thirteen stops — from the town that wrote the world's first lighting law to the monument that measured the darkest sky in the system.
Regions of Arizona
Each region gathers the parks, towns, drives, and roadside stops that define one corner of the state.
Navajo & Hopi Country
The Colorado Plateau's tribal heart — Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly, the Hopi mesas, Lake Powell and Antelope Canyon, and the banded ground of the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest, across the homelands of the Diné and Hopi.
Red Rock Country & the Central Highlands
Arizona's red-rock center — Sedona's sandstone spires and the green Verde Valley below, the copper ghost town of Jerome on Cleopatra Hill, and the pine-ringed old territorial capital at Prescott.
Route 66 & the Colorado River
The Mother Road and the water border with California — the longest surviving stretch of Route 66 from Seligman through Kingman to Oatman, the Black Mountains switchbacks, and the Colorado River lakes from Lake Havasu down to Yuma.
The Grand Canyon & the San Francisco Peaks
Arizona's high volcanic north — the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, the ponderosa city of Flagstaff, the San Francisco Peaks sacred to the Hopi and Diné, and the cinder cones and lava flows that built this country.
The Mogollon Rim & the White Mountains
The great forested escarpment and the Apache high country — the long wall of the Mogollon Rim, the alpine White Mountains, the plunge of Salt River Canyon, and the Coronado Trail, on the homelands of the Western Apache.
The Sonoran South & the Borderlands
Saguaro desert, silver towns, and the border missions — Tucson under its sky-island ranges, Saguaro National Park, the Spanish missions at San Xavier and Tumacácori, and the mining towns of Tombstone and Bisbee, on Tohono O'odham land near the Mexico line.
The Valley of the Sun
The desert metropolis on the canal builders' ground — Phoenix and its cities, the Superstition Mountains and the old Apache Trail, all laid over the irrigation canals the ancestral Huhugam dug and the Akimel O'odham still farm beside.
Stories from Arizona
The histories behind the places — the people, the disasters, the inventions, and the long memory of the land.
Historical Markers
Roadside history, plaque by plaque — every marker in Arizona, grouped by county and searchable.
Markers of Arizona
Browse every historical marker across Arizona — organized by county, each with its full plaque text.