Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum – Tucson, Arizona
Combine a world class zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden and you have the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. This fabulous facility has been available for visitors with its exhibits of live animals for over a half a century. The exhibits are set for the comfort of both the animals and the visitors with the natural landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region.
McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park – Scottsdale, Arizona
The McCormick Stillman Railroad Park was built on land that originally was part of land owned by Anne and Fowler McCormick (grandson of John D. Rockefeller.)
when Anne died in 1969 the ranch covered nearly 7 squre miles. The horse operations of the ranch were located in Scottsdale. In 1967 the Fowler McCormick’s donated 100 acres of the ranch to the City of Scottsdale to be used as a park for everyone to enjoy.
Biosphere 2 – Oracle, Arizona
Biosphere 2 is a project of the Unviersity of Arizona which serves as a tool to support research already underway by UA scientists. It will enable the college to perform key experiments aimed at quantifying some of the consequences of global climate change.
Arizona Wing CAF Flying Museum – Mesa, Arizona
The purpose and goal of the museum is to complete collection of combat aircraft which were flown by all military services of the USA in WW II. To provide protection and display of these aircraft as a tribute to those that served with them.
Meteor Crater Center – Flagstaff, Arizona
Formerly the Museum of Astrogeology this Meteor Crater Vistior Center shows new displays on the never-ending process of impacts and collisions in our solar systm by the Meteors. The learning center includes twenty-four exciting exhibits, making it the most extensie and informative museum of it’s kind on earth. There are also two interactive computer displays at the Learning Center that contain information and high-tech graphics on space, meterorites and asteroids, the solar system, and the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that impacted Jupiter.
Rawhide Western Town – Wild Horse Pass, Arizona
Situated in the Gila River Indian Community Rawhide is a western frontier town welcoming you to come and share some adventure. The town of Rawhide has a wonderful history of the Native American tribes that lived in the area long before the settlers came west. It was due to the kindness of the Indians to one traveler from Savannah, GA that the community got it’s name and became, in fact, a town. With the arrival of different people that were necessary to make the community survive the town grew and remains in touch with it’s history today.
